Can you hear me? Good. Okay. So my PhD is interdisciplinary, so that means I'm based in between faculty of business and law and a computer science department, so this means I'm kind of a jack of several trades, but I'm not a master of any of them. So the topic I'm going to be talking about today is digital advertising, how it works, how it doesn't work, and how we could change the way that we match providers of goods and services with customers who need to buy them. So the internet has been called the nervous system of the 21st century. It's provided us incredible value, but the business model that a lot of the services we use to access it and to communicate with each other are free and they're subsidized by a business model that's based on surveillance of consumers, and that is advertising. So this is a $512 billion industry, how does it work? Well, it's a way of matching the supply of goods and services with customers who want to buy them, but originally the purpose of advertising was to get brands to be able to be trusted, and by placing an ad in a newspaper or a billboard, it was a way of saying that they're a trusted brand, that they weren't cowboys, they weren't going to rip people off. It was also about cultural imprinting, which is the idea that if you make an association between a product and a certain way of life or a certain set of values, then consumers can express themselves through buying the product. But those don't have much to do with the kind of advertising that funds the internet today. That is target advertising. And the idea with targeted advertising is you know something about an individual and you use that knowledge to send them a special message which is designed to influence them to buy something. So for those who don't know, so this is 20% of the ad industry, but it's the majority of the revenue of a lot of the businesses that provide free services online. So for those who don't know, this is a simplified version of how that industry works. On the one side you've got sellers who want to sell stuff. On the other side you've got consumers, buyers. In the middle you've got a very complex kind of web of intermediaries. And so the sellers will have marketers whose job it is to try and sell stuff. They'll go to advertisers who will create the creative content to advertise the products. They'll use something called a demand side platform which is an intermediary service that allows them to automatically pay for ad space. And they'll do that through either an ad network or sometimes an ad exchange. And the idea of an ad network is to aggregate all of the available ad space and allocate ads to the space. An ad exchange allows this to happen through a marketplace where there are auctions. And so a publisher, so this could be any website that has display advertising space, will engage with an ad network or an ad exchange through what's called a supply side platform. The supply side platform and the demand side platform have auctions with each other through the ad exchange. And the amount that each display opportunity goes for depends on how much is known about the user that's visiting that page. So there's a whole load of personal data that gets collected in order to do this targeting. And sometimes there'll be third party data brokers that will be involved as well. And the idea is that the more that's known about an individual, the more that the ad space is worth paying for. So that's how it works in theory. Does it actually work in practice? So just from a purely business perspective. It's not really clear whether it does or not. We do know that about 44% of all the ads that are served in this way are never actually in view. So that's clusters being on a page that is visible to a user for more than one second. The remainder, the remaining 56%, it's not clear whether they get seen either because they might be ignored by consumers, they might be blocked through ad blocking software.  So this is where fraudsters essentially cheat marketers out of their ad spend by generating fake clicks and views of adverts. And they charge them per click or per view. Then there's the question of whether the profiling is particularly accurate. I think in some cases it is, but in a lot of cases it isn't. I logged on to the ad preference manager of an ad network and looked at my own profile. They think that I am a father with two kids and that I have a pet dog. As far as I know, neither of those things are true. So any targeting that's targeted at me on that basis is unlikely to be correct. But maybe there are some cases where the adverts that reach people in this way are relevant to them. The theory is that this is good for consumers because it's more relevant adverts and therefore things that they might actually be interested in. But aside from that, there are a whole bunch of problems with this infrastructure for consumers. The first one is surveillance. The ad industry makes surveillance very valuable. It encourages it, it invests in it. I'm not going to go into detail on this, but I think there are lots of people talking at the Congress who will be able to articulate far better than me the dangers of surveillance for civil liberties. The second problem is the use of this infrastructure for distribution of malware. So why would you try and hack into someone's computer if you could just simply buy access to it? So if you can pose as a marketer, then you can use this infrastructure to deliver a personalised phishing attack through an advert. So the advert will resolve if it's clicked to a landing page where it serves malicious software. The other problem is that with all this personal data sloshing around and being bought and sold, it's very hard to prevent it from getting into the wrong hands. Where, for instance, a data broker might sell information about consumers. There was a case where this happened in a Vietnamese scanning outfit just bought a whole load of personal data from a data broker and then sold it on to others. And there's the problems with personalisation generally. This whole system is set up to personalised stuff, but what seems to be convenient personalisation to some engineers in Silicon Valley or wherever might to other groups seem more like discrimination. One person's personalisation is another's discrimination. And when you can't tell how this is being done, when there's no way to scrutinise the algorithms that are driving this, then I think we have a problem. And there's a final interesting psychological problem with personalisation, which is that if you get too much of it, then people tend to get freaked out. There's a parallel here with some research that's been done in the field of robotics back in the 70s, they found that they were looking at how people responded to robots with human features. And they found that a little bit of human features makes people respond better to robots. They prefer to interact with them, but only up to a point. After a certain point, there's something called the Uncanny Valley where the robot looks too much like a human and people get freaked out because it's not quite a human, but it's almost a human. And so there are some marketing companies that are seriously worrying about a similar effect being the case in personalisation that's done with targeted marketing. So what's the solution? I think there are better ways that we could devise of matching people who have needs and wants with the products and services that could fulfil them. So I'm going to go through a few different ideas that I think could be really useful. So the first one is inspired by how large organisations go about buying stuff. What they don't do is they don't sit around on their computers waiting for ads to be targeted at them that are relevant to the stuff they want to buy. That would be crazy. They have procurement teams, and the procurement teams have a job which is to send out requests for proposals. A request for proposal will say exactly what it is that they want. There are all sorts of criteria that they have, internal policies, maybe even environmental or ethical policies that they have. And then suppliers have to compete for that tender. And they do this in a reverse auction so they compete against each other to provide the service at a good price. So this kind of infrastructure could work for individuals as well. There's a service called Flubit, which is one example where you find something online that you want to buy but you don't like the price. You copy the URL, paste it into the service. Within a few hours you will get back offers from companies who want to provide you with that same product at a cheaper price. And they'll be competing against each other in order to deliver that offer to you. So there's a guy called Doc Sells from Harvard University's project VRM, which stands for Vendor Relationship Management. And he calls this intent casting. So rather than consumers responding to the messages that put out by marketers, it's actually marketers or suppliers of products and services that are responding to the intentions that are broadcast by individuals. But this still leaves the problem that as an individual I don't have a great deal of power in the marketplace. What gives me more power is being aggregated with lots of other people. So this is where collective purchasing comes in. Essentially the idea is that by aggregating demand for a particular good that an intermediary can give consumers much more bargaining power with suppliers. And this works particularly well in areas like energy. You have switching schemes that have been run where intermediaries like charities or local councils, in some cases even churches, will get people together and help them switch to an energy provider that can provide them with a better service at a lower price and so on. And the energy providers, even the big four energy providers in the UK were clamoring to try and offer the lowest price in order to get the customer. This isn't a new idea, it's been around for a long time. During the Industrial Revolution, workers, cooperatives, pulled their labour to increase the bargaining power that they had with employers, but they did the same thing with buying household goods. They had collective purchasing, they called them cooperative wholesale societies, and the aim was not just to do bulk purchases, but to actually organise production and have an influence on how the goods that they bought were made and so on. And so the final thing I think is worth looking at is assurance contracts. This is the technical term that economists use to describe a Kickstarter-style pledge system. The idea is that you get lots of people to pledge that if enough other people do so, they will put their money into a project, and then before you even go into production you have a proven demand. So it's a way of uncovering latent demand that might not otherwise be revealed through people's purchases. And some people have advocated moving towards this model for a lot of new things and they call this the pre-order economy. So something I think is important to notice with all these tools, these mechanisms, is that they're initiated by the buyer, they get to set the criteria, and so only when a sale actually goes through is there any direct contact between the provider and the buyer. And they can also be used to turn the tools of surveillance that are being used right now by marketers back on the providers. So there was a campaign called Move Your Money in the UK, which was looking at ethical banking and it gathered thousands of people together who wanted to change their bank to a more ethical bank. They did a whole load of research into which banks were most ethical and then on a certain date they will switch to the one which should manage to demonstrate enough that it was ethical. So there are other criteria that can be used, other than just a particular product at a particular price. So I think the missing piece here is the ability to do all these things in a decentralized way. At the moment all of the providers of these services are individual organizations, they build their own software, they have to aggregate demand, and they have to work in specific industries, and it's not a model that scales very well across the whole marketplace. So I think what's needed is a decentralized way of doing this. So the idea would be that your wants and your needs would be broadcast anonymously on a decentralized network. So let's say I want to buy a laptop and I want certain specifications, I want a certain operating system, there are some companies I don't want to deal with because I don't trust them for instance. So all this information can be broadcast to a decentralized network. From there it can be aggregated into a collective alliance of other people with similar needs and then suppliers can then crawl that network and look at all of the different demands that are being made and bid to meet those demands. And only then does my purchase become linked to my identity if I wanted to when I complete the purchase. And so I think there are, this is kind of an example of how it can work is a very rough sketch of how it might work. There are people working on doing this in a decentralized way, one of them is here, his name is Florian Kledorf, I think he's over there. So if you want to find out how his project is achieving this, it's called the Web of Needs, I'd recommend getting in touch with him. So the point of all this is that I think it's a better way of matching supply and demand. It avoids all of the problems of the digital advertising industry as it currently stands. And I think it's a better way of organizing consumer markets. So conclude, I'd like to put this in a broader context. There's a narrative of consumer empowerment that kind of stems from the enlightenment idea that we're all individuals with autonomous decision-making power. We interact with each other on the market and we make choices based on the options that are available to us. But I think this is a myth. It doesn't really work like that. When the web came along we thought that it was going to make it even better for consumers because there'd be even more information available at our fingertips and we'd have even more ability to decide. But actually it doesn't really work like that. There's so much information out there but most of the time we're being targeted with advertisements rather than going out and searching it all. And so I think what we need instead is a system that is based on transparency from the providers that's not based on surveillance of consumers. I think it's important to have a system that is not about grabbing the attention of consumers and trying to convince them to buy stuff but that actually is based on their needs and their desires and their individual criteria. And that treats them as individuals with their own set of values rather than just manipulable kind of predictable consumers. So I'm not sure if I've finished ahead of time but I'll be pleased to take your questions. First in answer to your question you finished well ahead of time so we've got 12 minutes for Q&A or discussion. And I see there is only one person on microphone one so go ahead. Okay thank you for your talk. First question you talked about advertisements that advert as a product but what about advertisements that advert as a brand like where a car manufacturer says hey we build great cars please like us. Well there's an interesting theory that that kind of advertising should actually be more valuable and the argument there is that targeting allows you to pay a very small amount to target a very specific person and so anyone can do that. You don't need to be a big company with a lot of money to invest and have been going for a long time to do that. So actually rationally you might think that a target advertisement signals that you're not necessarily a very reputable brand whereas if you buy a double page spread in a magazine and you to demonstrate that you have that power to do that then people might be more interested in it and be more willing to respect you as a company that can do that. So that's one theory. I think generally branding advertisements are a different beast and they don't necessarily require surveillance because they're normally higher profile. They're on billboards or in magazines. OK. And another thing if you actually next question was another microphone which would be number two. One question for me for me is I see a lot of advertising in the net advertising something that is next step for advertising. So for example if you have a free game on the iPad it has advertising for next free game that maybe gets some advertising for the real product. This is getting metameter meta levels. Will this ever break down completely because all these levels of advertising. I'm not sure I quite are you saying that you're in a game you get an advertisement for the next next free game that perhaps monetizing itself by selling another ad for another free game and I need to. Well I guess that wouldn't require that wouldn't require surveillance because all you all you need to know is that the person is playing the game right. So there aren't as many negative effects I think and that you've already expressed your interest in the game by playing it. So number four. Yeah I'm just more like a comment I think. So I basically I don't watch ads because I have an ad blocker and I haven't had the TV for like I don't know more than 10 years and things like that. So I really am not you know aware and then what's really weird is that sometimes people tell me that hey you know I've seen this ad and you know have a look it's really weird and I'm like whoa you know that's a new product and it's actually useful like you know it's the ad what I'm trying to say is that they're not pushing ad on me it's like it's actually valuable information which I know sounds very strange but so what I'm trying to say is that if we turn this around which is what you're trying to propose I think is that there will be a lot I mean there will be an information flow that will be missing. I mean I personally thought that that information flow is complete use this information but it turns out that I had to face the fact that it's not completely useless and so what do you say to that. So if the question is about you know without ads how do we discover new products that we weren't aware of. If it's completely based on our own initiative to go and make the request then we might miss out on important opportunities and I think that's right but I think there are other models to discover products that you might want to need. There are you know obvious to write blogs about particular things that are great and they look at all the new products that are coming out and that's an impartial source it's not coming from the seller and so I think you should there's always more reason to trust an impartial source than anything that comes from the seller. I think it's interesting to consider that. Could you just one question per person please and the next questions right behind you on microphone four as well. OK thank you.  So when companies look at that do you think they will trust the opinion of the customers when they see well they don't really know what they want. I think yeah I think it's true that as I said we don't really know what we really want. We usually make bad decisions and we usually make sub-optimal decisions. But part of that is about tools that allow me to be aware of my own inconsistencies that allow me to understand what I really want and when that differs from what I think I want. It's another thing to say that that's a justification for putting leaving all this infrastructure in the hands of of those who are trying to convince me to buy stuff especially if they if I think that I like a certain thing but my actions reveal I like something else and I might want to change that. Let's say it's I think I want to quit smoking. Right. I know that I want to quit smoking but I keep on smoking. That doesn't mean that I actually do like cigarettes. It's a conflict between my higher decision-making power and my my my base decision-making. Next one is number three. Thank you very much for the great talk. If more and more collectives come around then they'll become a big player in the network that you showed in the beginning.  Have you thought about what they'll come up with and what we should be afraid of and be prepared for? Yeah. Yeah, I think I think that they see that and there's a positive opportunity for sellers at least. I think that a lot of the ad industry will if this were to happen a lot of the industry would die off. But I think from the seller perspective there's a huge advantage if you don't have to go and acquire consumers you don't have to spend money on advertising anymore. And that's great. I mean, if the energy switching program was what everyone used rather than just sort of 10% of the people using it then you could have an energy company that had no marketing budget but that exclusively so the prices would be lower and they'd always be winning the custom of the collectives. So I think there's a huge opportunity for businesses to use this model and therefore not have to go in for the whole digital advertising model. Next we have a question from the internet. So what do you think about consumer generated wish list approaches? Are those a good model? Yeah, that's a decent model. I know that Amazon has that. And yeah, I think that's a good idea. The problem at the moment is it's centralized. So if I have a wish list model with a particular vendor then I only get offers from that vendor. And so another service that could do that and that could match my wishes with similar people and aggregate them together. I think that'd be a good thing. Next one was on number one. So you talked about collective purchasing which is now popular for energy markets. You're probably a bit too young for it but like when we had the new economy in 99 and 2000 there was a lot of collective purchasing for consumer goods like cameras. So basically it worked. Some broker was collecting the requests and whenever they had an order for like 10 cameras they would send it out. But that magically vanished. So did you do any comparison? What went wrong there? Or why did it vanish? And will it vanish again? Or what did they do wrong in those years? I'm not sure. It's a good question. I think where it has been successful it's been in markets that are more like utilities than one-off purchases because people have to pay their energy bills or they have to use their bank year in, year out. And so if you have to do that it's kind of you're confronted with that decision so many times that at some point you think well maybe I should do this in a more efficient way. Whereas if you're buying a camera you might not have to consider how you make the decision so many times. So people might not know about them. I think it's hard for that kind of service to get a foothold. And also there's a problem of instant gratification. You can go and buy the camera straight away rather than having to wait for enough other people. But I think people pledge money on Kickstarter for stuff. 90% of the stuff on maybe more on Kickstarter doesn't get funded. But people still put their money down just in case. So I think this could grow. Next question is on microphone number two and I don't know whether we'll have enough time to answer all questions standing there but go ahead. Okay then I try to make it quick. So I think a lot about empowering consumers and you talked more about the functional and qualitative set of preference consumers may have when purchasing a product. But there's also the dimension of ethical, moral, political values and views that we also may wish to express by purchasing. And of course once you solve the problem of combining the purchasing power of consumers that's great. But I wonder if you've thought about more about really creating transparency on the supply side. So as long as marketers or companies can still create an image that we are making the world a better place by you know and that they have very human rights saving production process. So how can you really solve the issue of information asymmetry between what the consumer knows and what maybe a group of people may believe they know? I absolutely agree. And I think there are people working on that. So there's things like open product data, open supply chains, all that kind of stuff. And some companies are making efforts to do that. But I agree that there's a lot of asymmetry and it's very opaque at the moment. I think one model you could have would be okay, let's only deal with the ones that say what they do and provide evidence for it. And so the consumer might take a hit because they might miss out on other stuff that is being produced in an ethical way. But it provides an incentive for the suppliers to actually publish that information. Right now there's just not enough demand for it. But I think in future it'd be great if there was. And this campaign I mentioned, the Move Your Money campaign, they created a lot of that information themselves by going out and doing their own investigations into how the banks were using their money for investments. Next is on microphone four. I'm going to be a bit provocative.  It's been tried, and the role has been taken over by social networks. Group buying was tried by Groupon and became a total perversion, total push model. And assurance contracts kickstarted successful. It is because it's a destination site in itself because there's strong editorial control on what is allowed and kickstarted or not. So I mean, I'm just wondering, have you answered the question already yourself? Consumers are lazy. So there needs to, I mean, the role for intermediaries, will, we will still need the role for intermediaries. Yeah, I think that for now, yes, intermediaries need to be recognized brands in themselves. There are some in the UK that have to do a lot of, spend a lot of money marketing themselves and demonstrate to consumers that they exist and that what the value they provide. So I think for now, they're most likely to be centralized, but I hope that in the future they won't be. And I think for this model to scale more widely, I think that it does need to be decentralized. Well, unfortunately, you ran out of time. Maybe you find another room to continue this discussion. Thank you for your talk and for the Q&A.


My name is Dr. Kamal and I'd like to welcome you on behalf of MedSmarter to our cardiac cycle video. So cardiac is a very high yield subject just because the number one killer in the US is cardiovascular disease. So definitely expect to see plenty of questions when it comes to cardio and especially cardiophysiology. So to help you guys with the cardiac physiology and the cardiac cycle, I want to do this video to break it down and help you understand what exactly is going on in the heart. So this is how your heart is functioning. So basically the mitral closes indicating, you know, the end of filling and then we need to get all of that now the left ventricle is nice and big. So we need to contract, get that blood out into the aorta because the body needs all of that freshly oxygenated blood. So this is how your heart is functioning when it comes to that. So that's how your heart should be functioning normally. So that's indicated by this black square. So the black square is how your heart should be functioning in a normal scenario, you know, not exercising, not with non-hypertensive patients and not fluid overloaded patients. But the step one exam definitely wants you to know also what happens in these other scenarios. So what happens if we have a scenario where we have a lot of contractility. So say you're exercising and your heart is contracting with additional force or what happens with increased afterload. So we have a lot of pressure in the aorta that the heart has to overcome or what happens if your fluid overloaded like those pregnant patients or say that there's just a lot of edema. So there's a lot of fluid retention. So what will happen in these patients? So we'll talk about these scenarios in detail. So what happens with high preload is something that we have to take into account called stroke volume. So stroke volume is basically this line right here. So this horizontal line. So the stroke volume basically looks into how much blood we had at the filling point and then how much blood after ejection is left over. So the difference between the two. So the wider this graph, the more the stroke volume, the smaller the graph when it comes to horizontally is the less the stroke volume. So in preload we have more filling. So preload you always want to think of the load of the heart of basically coming in from the SVC and IVC into the right atrium. So the more sort of fluid we have coming into the heart, the more preload we have. So that's basically designated in this graph by you see the elongation of the filling phase. So if you can reason that out, if we have more blood coming into the right ventricle and left ventricle now we're going to increase our stroke volume. So you can see that demonstrated here in the graph via the pink lines. So the pink lines are showing you if you had a lot of fluid overload then this is basically what would happen to the graph. So you would have more diastolic filling and that would correspond to the high preload. So then we have a scenario with increased afterload. So increased afterload you want to think of scenarios with hypertension, maybe some aortic calcification, aortic thickening. So anything that doesn't allow the normal expansion of the aorta and anything that's causing increased back pressure to the heart via the aorta. So with this increased afterload scenario now we're going to have high aortic pressures. So with high aortic pressures now this is going to decrease the stroke volume. So this is demonstrated in the graph here via the green lines. So if you can see this green line, when we talked about in a normal heart that the heart has to overcome the pressure in the aorta. Now you can see here the heart has to go through a lot more contraction for it to overcome this pressure in the aorta. And so this isovalometric contraction phase is elongated. And the problem with this is because we're spending all this time contracting to overcome the pressure in the aorta. Now we've wasted that time and the ejection phase gets drastically reduced. So if you can see here we're decreasing the stroke volume because now we don't have enough time to get the blood out. So this is in turn the contraction, the ejection phase is shortened. And now we're not getting all the blood out. So you can see increased end systolic volume. So now at the end of systole, we still have all this blood remaining. So if you can picture an overworked heart, which is very common in these hypertensive patients, basically they have very high heart rate. So they have very high resting heart rates. And this is a big factor in that the heart to overcome all that back pressure and afterload, it needs to basically pump very, very quickly in order to get whatever little time it has in the ejection phase. So if you can see the ejection phase is shortened and then it comes back to relaxation, and then again even filling time is shortened as well. So if you can picture, you see the horizontal is greatly reduced in a patient with high afterload. So in the horizontal line, this is again showing you the stroke volume. So you see in normal patient, we have end diastolic volume minus end systolic volume. So you see end diastolic volume versus end systolic volume. So normally we have a nice wide graph. So we're filling up the heart nicely, and we're also contracting and getting all of that blood out nicely. But in increased afterload, you can see why that would be reduced, visually represented here. So the last scenario I want to talk about is a scenario in which we'll have high contractility. So this could be a scenario where we have some sort of beta agonist on board or we're exercising, so we're sending an endogenous signal to the heart for it to contract more thoroughly. Or we could have a medication like digoxin, which also increases contractility. So this scenario is depicted by the blue line. So this blue line here shows you what happens when the heart is basically contracting to get that extra bit of blood out of the heart. So if you can see here, the graph is again going more wide. So this is depicted by an increased stroke volume. So an increased stroke volume here means that we're getting more blood out of the heart. So at the end of systole, if you can see here, we're getting more blood out. So you can see the left ventricular volume depicted at the bottom of the graph. Now this is decreasing. So we're basically in times of need of cardiac output, now we're getting more blood out of the heart. So the heart is doing an even better job at contracting and getting every little drop out of the left ventricle. So that's why we're going to have decreased end systolic volume. So that's a summary of the entire cardiac cycle. Very, very high yield. You definitely want to have a good understanding. Don't go through just simple memorization when it comes to the cardiac cycle. You want to visualize what exactly is going on in the heart. So visualize the different scenarios in which we would have high afterload, we would have high contractility, or in which we would have high preload. And it helps to sort of think about what measures the heart can go through to sort of deal with these scenarios. Okay? We would definitely like you to share this video. Also like it, subscribe to the channel. We're regularly adding additional medical questions, content, and then you can also use a special promo code right below and that will give you a discount as well.


As leaders, this time of year often finds us fully immersed in a stressful season pursuing both great ideas inside our organizational work teams while searching to make the best gift choices for ones that we truly love. The media marketing and our friends are all submitting their own opinions. Life's little instruction book by Jackson Brown once mentioned. We dismiss a good idea simply because you do not like the source and chief operating officer of the Neural Leadership Institute, Mika Lease noted that this small quotation ties halos around those that we tend to like and horns over those we do not. This halo effect phenomenon, a cognitive impression bias that influences how we feel supports that if we like one thing about a member of our team, we tend to like all things, but the opposite is also true. Your team becomes faster and deadlines become tighter and the opinions of others become more impactful to the decisions and become more numerous. Be the leader to pause and assess your on team and off team biases. Look for the unique halos that exist over every team member, because the value goes far beyond holidays. Lead well this holiday season.


Welcome to Road Gear Reviews. I'm Mark from RVLove and today we're talking about Ran McNally Road Atlases. Stay tuned. I actually have two here. I have the large print version, a 2015 version, and a 2017 version that's for the motor carriers. This is the truckers version and this is the Deluxe, which is the laminated pages. Both have their pros and cons. Let's talk about each of them individually. This Road Atlas is the Deluxe motor carriers version. This is really targeted at professional drivers, truckers, semi-drivers, because there's a lot of information in here about weight restrictions and licensing and the type of towing capacities that you can do in individual states. A lot of RVers also like this version because it has a section on height restrictions, weight restrictions, and a big section on mileage from city to city in the back. This Deluxe version has laminated pages, which makes it really durable and also it gives you the opportunity to highlight your route with a highlighter pen and then wipe it off after the fact. So a lot of people like those additional features. This Deluxe version with the laminated pages also has a tougher spiral bound. This is a very durable book. So if you're rough on your books and paperbacks, then this is be one to strongly consider and if you like the idea of highlighting your route, that's a great idea too. The downside of this book is it's 160 pages versus the 260 pages of the large print. It's about the same size, about 10 by 15, but with a hundred less pages, obviously the maps are going to be smaller than the other one. The large scale has 35% larger maps. One of the other reasons that the Deluxe version is appealing to people, as you can see all the orange highlights on here, these orange highlights are routes that are good for trucks. So if you have a large RV, it's beneficial to have the best routes already highlighted on the map. Randy McNally comes out with new versions of these every year. In fact, it's currently June of 2017 and I noticed the 2018 versions are already out. This particular version is the 2015 because we hit the road back in 2014 with this version. This is the large scale and the spiral bound. There's also a paperback version, but I would highly recommend the spiral version because it's really nice to be able to lay it completely flat. Paperback versions don't necessarily allow that capability. This is the large scale version, so you can see the map is much larger. This is eastern Colorado, this is eastern Colorado. So this is one page, this is two pages, and I like without, see without those orange lines, it feels less cluttered. It is easier to read some of the small print, not only because there's no orange lines, but of course because it's much larger print, which makes it easier for you to see the detail in the small cities in case you want to plan some diversions along the main route. So, Randy McNally makes three versions. They make a paperback version, a paper spiral back version, and a laminated spiral bound version. The paperback version is usually around 10 bucks, maybe 15. The spiral bound version is 15 to 20. I would highly recommend the spiral bound version over the paper back version, and then this laminated version is around 50 dollars. So in my opinion it's totally worth spending the extra to get the spiral bound. Whether or not it's worth it to go to the laminated version is going to be a personal choice. If you're really rough with your stuff, the laminated version is much more durable. If you like highlighting your routes, that's a big advantage for you as well. If you're a trucker or a large RVer, the motor carrier version does have those advantages of having some of the routes pre-highlighted that are better for big rigs. Also has the weight restrictions, the height restrictions, and a lot of additional mileage charts so you can calculate your distance to different cities. We started off with this large scale version and ended up two years later purchasing this motor carrier version on the recommendation of some other RVers. But personally, I still prefer this version because I like the larger print. When I'm sitting down with my maps and doing my route planning, I like to dig down to see the small cities, and I also don't like how on the motor carrier version some people really like that it highlights the big routes, but I think it makes it a lot more cluttered. So it's harder to see the city names and the street names that I would be easier to find on the paper version without those highlighted routes. It is nice to have the height and weight restrictions in the motor carrier version. It is nice to have the pre-highlighted routes that are great for big rigs, and it's nice to have a laminated version to highlight the route you want to take. So this, if those advantages are really important to you, definitely steer towards the Deluxe motor carrier version. If you want more details, maps, and you want to reduce the clutter of those highlighted routes, I would recommend the large scale version of the Road Atlas. So which do I prefer? Personally, I like the large scale version because I'd love that detail. They both have their advantages, but for the $30 jump from the large scale version to the Deluxe laminated version, it's not necessarily worth it to me, but it might be to use. So we'll of course put links to both versions in the description below. So some of you might be thinking, well I've got a GPS, why do I need an old-school paper version of a Road Atlas? Personally, I like to do my route planning well in advance. I like to sit it down at the table and have a big paper version and plan it out and have a good mental picture of the route that I'm going to take. Not only for that day, but the larger picture for the years because I like to see the big picture. And GPS is fail. We've had our GPS fail on us a couple times already, and when you're driving a big rig and the GPS takes you down the wrong road, that is not cool. When we do our route planning, we like using the paper road atlases. We also use an RV specific GPS and we double check it against the GPS on our phone. We also like using a reference that are called mountain directories that help us be aware of any steep grades on the route that we're planning. We'll do a separate review about those later on. One of the other things I love about an actual paper road atlas is I like to be able to look at the bigger picture and see what other routes might be enjoyable because when you choose a GPS, that's often just trying to get you the most direct route there. And the most direct route there might not be your best route there. This has been a review of Rand McNally Road atlases. I hope you found it helpful. If you have these atlases, we'd love to hear your comments about how you find them helpful. If you like this video, please be sure to give us a thumbs up and subscribe and check back every week for new videos from Road Gear Reviews. Until then, we'll see you on the road.


Recession and let's go around and take a roll. I'm Joe Peckman, Susie Lama-Fairing, Marcia Martin, City Council. Eric O'Hayes, City Council. Tim Warner, City Council. Beryl McGinnis, City Manager. E.D. May, City Attorney. Sean McCoy, City Council. Dr. Kessler, hey, great. I'm going to apologize for the last pre-session. I've let the airport conversation go on way too long, so we didn't have time for Erin to talk about bonus, but before we turn it over to him, Carol would like to ask the question of us. Yeah, so as we're preparing for the meeting on the 27th, when we talked to the council, we thought we were going to be short one council member, and that looks like we're going to be short two council members on the 27th and the two items that we had placed on that agenda were guns and housing reports. And one council member, we can deal with two, I think that's going to be oriented towards a getting direction. And so under our rules, City Manager can cancel the city session, and then we would just have to take those two items and move them. One probably in, one probably out, but we can work on that. But for those two items, I really mean. Traction. I know that Lee's six, probably seven on that, so I wanted to see if there were any thoughts. Well, when it's topics like that, it might be beneficial to also have it. Is it always best to have it in the middle of the very end of the summer of June, going into July, when people start to say, try to take some maybe longer breaks and associated with the 4th of July, maybe family time. So that's not the worst case scenario. So they were seeing if they can move that to the 20th, so I can move the slide to gun discussion in. And then the housing needs assessment, I will move it out, which may help us a little bit as we get into the LAJ meeting. What you will see is we've now been privy to market assessments as part of the housing projects that we're building. And we're seeing a weird disconnect between the housing needs assessment and the market assessment that we're getting that the leaders have to use. So we're kind of scramps, you know, driving hard to figure that out by the 27th. So if we could slide that out, that could potentially help us. It's hard for us to slide anything in just because of what everything else is saying on the queue. So, so we're in here until the 27th, and we're not wrapping up the 4th of July. Correct. And I'm going to be gone to the 11th. Okay, so we probably moved the housing to the 18th. You don't schedule around me just like, yeah, I'm going to be going to the 11th. I'm going to be going to the 11th too, because I'm having knee surgery with that. I'm going to schedule around you. Yeah, sorry. So if we can slide the gun, if we can slide the gun to the, you know, that's the legislative backup from Eugene, or now that's the legal backup from Eugene, the legislative backup from Sandy, and the police agreeing with the issues. And I guess they asked in last Thursday when we saw this started occurring, can we move it to the 20th, I guess the answer to yes or no. So that's the 20th of June. 20th of July. And then it's the housing slide to the 18th, which is something we're not sure is going to do some don't look up. I don't know, but you know, I don't know, I'm standing right, but we don't do enough study sessions all the time. We can just do it like we fancy them. On the 18th, we have July 18th. Is the study session followed by an allergy? Yeah, I think what hit June was normally when we added the second public forum that killed the study session. And then in June, it's even more complicated to see. Yeah, it fell later. So that's part of it. If we were to list all the big issues we need to address between now and September 1st, the ballot questions would be on that list. Do you have some sense, housing? I mean, it's probably comfortable. These are pretty significant issues. Right. And we have got to get before September 1, whatever the ballot questions you get, so roughly by the end of July, right? Yeah, I was kind of looking at July 11th for the ballot questions. You and I talked and again, meeting everyone for the ballot questions. I started working on signing that for the 18th, so I can make sure especially now that the needs are great. So, you know, I would look at ballot questions on the 18th, depending that agenda didn't look too bad right now. So I would think ballot questions and housing on the 18th generally is good. If we needed to, we could look at doing a pre-session on the housing before the meeting and still accomplish the same thing so we can work on the scandals to do it. It's just, yeah, the 27th. Just those two items are so significant that I think maybe you best answer at least six, preferably seven, actually. The ballot questions are pretty significant too, and we have seen you have created a situation where the arts entertainment people have are gagged, but the librarians people are helping on the town, and that should really be fixed. So, I mean, you know, there were some different options that had shown up that were evaluating, and so we're getting different numbers on some of the other options, and until we get some of the numbers, it's kind of hard to talk through some of those things. So I'm hoping that I'm meeting this Friday, hopefully to see where we are on some of that, and then I'll meet them, the board, after that. So Friday is really the day for me to kind of understand some of those. So we have a consensus here that we want to not have the 27th that we cancel that. Yes. What is the short mean? I do have a question about the gun safety. I know that we had asked for it to come back in June, but then when I think about our council priorities, where would this fall, you know, considering that we are having to cut meetings because of, you know, unforeseen, you know, Fourth of July just happened on the 4th, on the Tuesday, so then that impacted. So, you know, is there a possibility that we could move that further down? I think the only thing was what Marcia had said along here was about trying to get something on the legislative agenda and stuff like that, so where we stood on some of these things, whether it be the gun issue or that, and so, you know, of course, we want to respect that in the sense of, to your point, that's a very important part of where we are as a community. We're kind of tired of the guns and everything. Well, that's not where all of us are. It was a motion and a duration that we would look at it in June. So, it's, the whole idea of that motion was to see how much light there was between what happened on the legislature and I think that the legislature did everything that Eugene and Kyle and Bess dared to do, so it doesn't need to be very long. I think it's more going to be based on what you think they come back and really, I think most of it's going to be exact, in the public safety connections. So, just, this is kind of tangential, but you mentioned the legislative agenda, at some point, I still think this group might have a conversation about legislators before they start drafting legislation in some way.  So, if there is other legislation or whatever we decide to do with firearms, if any part of it has a legislative implication, we have a chance to talk about that. But there are other things that we need, in my opinion, we need to be talking about legislators. So, to that point, I'm glad you brought it up that I did talk to the immobilian after she, when was this, send it up, and after she would be willing and her and Karen McCormick and be willing to meet with us and she said yes anytime. So, I was going to talk to her about that. Awesome. So, as we talked about scheduling, getting that on the calendar, for me, would be... Yeah, I think what we wanted to do is have this conversation, you know, what you wanted to do on that and then schedule something. Your direction was to schedule a meeting with the legislature, legislate towards ahead of our normal schedule in January, because it was part of that drafting. I think that was part of that conversation. No, it's just like us in budget, you know, we're talking about, I don't want to forget the drafting legislation is now. Right. So, I think, yeah, we can definitely get that but you just said, let's say, but you know, let's know which which legislators you would like to be in, maybe not just the ones we're always talking to, if there are others, the ones that kill the assault So, anyway, is that it now? Yeah, that was a big thing for me. At least I think Jennifer, Prenti, Karen, Sonia, and if you need to be willing to do that, she is. She drafted some of these bills but that's why I asked her. So, I'm turning over to Erin in FYI, Shakita is back here. She, and I, you know, I felt that for her, she said part of all her emotion last Tuesday was that she had found out that her aunt had become very ill and had gone to the hospital. So, it was a generosity of counsel and the emotion of her favorite aunt that she just broke down and then later in the week, her aunt passed away. So, today is her funeral. So, she called last night and said, I'm leaving tonight for the funeral. Today will be Beth's wedding day. So, that's why she's here. Well, I wouldn't be surprised if her youngest daughter scratched my nose. Oh, yeah. Is that all that happened? Yeah, that's true. You guys are on Saturday, right? Yes. She's very emotional, I guess. Taking back, yes. But it was great. So, anyway, Erin, what did you talk to us about? Almost the same, he was a winner. Sure, I think there's a miscommunication that Shakira and I wanted to speak about because this was a conversation that happened between Shakira and I while we were in D.C. for NLC. It was not because of what we heard at NLC. It was just a conversation that happened between us. So, it has nothing to do with anything that was present in NLC. It was the idea that the City Council has generally built consensus either through retreat or through similar meetings like this on issues such as housing and, you know, childhood education, transportation, as our roadmap, the house that we're building, our framework. But as I think we all know, one of the biggest issues that comes up for all of us is the analysis of what we're doing or not doing about it. And I don't feel that we necessarily all sat down with each other and truly had the conversation outside of the confines of a real council meeting with the rules of procedure that we had. And so that was the conversation which we didn't really have, was that we thought that it would be a great idea for us to sit down and because there's some preparation we got because of that last month where Eleanor just sent us all the funding that we sent and all the different outreach sources and things like that, that we're prepared to have a conversation in that sense, is that as a council are we happy with that this? Or is there something else, you know, I know Lawrence just talked about kind of like a resource center or whatever it is. It's not necessarily a shelter, but it's, I don't know if we should call it a resource center. Something like that, right? Yeah, something like that. And, you know, Jennifer Leibniz is in New Zealand, but the moment we're starting to work on the next she's on the feet forward and she had some remarks about the recent presentation that was given to the faith leaders because she's got two big things. One is temporary shelter, you know, isolated temporary shelter is a good shelter. The increase is the opportunity for addiction and so she's not sure she likes that model. And the other one is, and people are telling what Denver has built foundation, but Denver is a city and county so they control all the different resources. And I can talk about replicating the Denver road. Her idea is you're never going to have, you're going to miss all the epiphanies that make people turn their polar and excitability where we have or go into, you know, a work housing or housing first program or something if you don't have some base time. And so all of the service deniers, they forget that unless they are detaining. But the only detention we have now isn't working because it's jail. And jail does two things. It turns people away right now and if it doesn't turn the people away it's treated as punishment, which is the wrong thing. Yeah, they're not resource providers. They're not necessary.  I know the mayor has a working group or has an Adelaide's group. So that was really the impetus being united by asking for this is that if we can come to at least an answer that we can give people, that we can give them, these are what we would like to happen if we don't already have them the list of resources that we're already providing. And not having heard every voice on council. I can't give them an answer personally. So I was like, what's the council for the federal? You know, there's some different approaches. This is what the city is doing currently. I can't give them an answer. We're happy with what we're doing. We're really happy with what we're doing. Always examining what we're doing. And I have been working on this under the radar to be quite honest about this staff. And my working group, because of the pushback that we've had since I've been on council since 2016 about the convention, anything. It's Indianism or, you know, the paper was Jones going to have shelters all over the city. You know, you just think people still. So we actually can't, you know, examine the pallet structures and the, what is it, the Roya? Roya Village. Yeah, Delores Project, which we were all invited to tour. And just exploring ideas. And with the church meeting, now we have churches that are coming out and saying we're interested in this and this and this and this. So I asked Ella Berthel. One of the things, a lot of churches want to go in. So we're trying to figure out where they should donate. And how, and Ella Berthel and Harold had listed several options. So we're going to have a meeting this week or next. I said, where's that list of options on numbers that have a pallet people come out and talk to the the churches and communities that are interested in pallet structures. It's education. And we're asking for help because we as a city cannot do this alone. And it's also addressing what our public safety department has said that what they need to help them with the unhoused problem. But also, Harold, perhaps sometime on your schedule, we need to talk about the Roya Village and what is that because it encompasses some of what Marsha has been saying. I think Ron kind of saying the same thing, but I think it's time, you know, to Aaron's point that we have a big discussion about it. But I personally want to put out, I'm going to have another meeting of the same churches and saying thank you for responding. Here's what we have found that you're interested in. So we're going to bring up the pallet structure people are going to bring up. But the operation is because it's not easy. You have to be really committed. And where our resources are, how can we get all the resources in the same place? Who's going to operate it? It's a huge undertaking. It isn't easy. And to be honest, it's something I'm very interested in. But it's something you just have to work really hard at and come out with ideas rather than put what you're working on out there and have the pushback come before you have time to discuss it. Well, I think one of the things that needs to be discussed is whether it is in fact a solution to the problems that we have or not. And what is not happening is that some of the people who control moving parts that are necessary to the solution aren't in any of the conversations that you've described. So you've got to look at things like the county courts, our municipal judge, because I frankly don't know exactly how the years mesh to end up with all the people that get booked by our police force end up back out on the street. But I think we need to look at that. And other places have implemented drug courts and drug detention that allow people a week or two of detention to be processed into rehab or housing first program or something that uses the fact that they were apprehended in that committing a crime, even if it is only some people who are not allowed to sleep, to make an excuse for an engagement that cannot be refused. And I would not become comfortable going forward with anything until we have that conversation because it's a piece of the solution that we can't implement by ourselves. And we need to get the buy-in of the county and we need to understand how it works. Maybe everybody else understands how it works when I work. Well, to be honest, getting the buy-in of the county has been a two-year project. And we're closer than we ever have been to be honest. And I agree with you. I heard an incredible speech from Curtis Johnson, the county. And they shared. Yeah. About, what is your last name, Shibin? The name of Shibin. Yeah, the name of Shibin's first application program. Which is great. I think it's amazing. The problem is, you have to be arrested to begin it. And because it's, but it would be wonderful if we had that, if we had them come and speak to us and explain it to us. So I agree. And maybe we should schedule a meeting about homelessness only. Yes. As I'm listening, I'm just thinking about a series of conversations that just fixed up because we came in. I read a couple of meetings in the Blasius Street station. Yes. We had providers. We had public safety. Yeah. For me, the moment where we were headed, what was most meaningful or productive for me was the clarity we began to achieve on the segments of our homeless population. So as I'm listening, whether it's what Mursh is talking about now, somebody's got a substance abuse issue, I think it's great. Or a man or woman who's looking for a safe house or a family living in a car. The value of that for me was segmenting a population each segment, meeting something, but meeting something different. And then that segment of the population that simply refuses anything.  Our options were quite different. The resource commitment was going to be different. The policy implications. The strategy implications was different. So as I'm listening, if we're going to do that, I'd rather, I'd rather rather resurrect or reinvigorate that conversation and get us to a place where there is clarity about which segment we're talking about and what's the strategy and how do you resource and how are there policy implications for us for those segments. For me, otherwise, it's like, yeah. Honestly, I think if we kept following that through the pandemic, well, we don't have perfect solutions for every segment, but we have some solution for every segment except the bottom tier, like, I guess I shouldn't be judging all, the refusing to the service-resistant. The resistance to refusing tears. We have nothing to do with it. Rasha, you could, you could be researching. I have been. Great. Because that is the I agree with you in that there are different segments and that is the challenge. It's a challenge for our local community or county to address all of those and that some of those are what we put out to the faith community. All different tiers of support. Where can you help us in this and are you interested in? There is interest. And to be honest, where we butted heads with the county is that they are a housing first one. And when I talked to the, and toward the Boulder Shelter, we have a different idea of what housing first is. They, Michael who runs that Boulder Shelter. This idea is that anybody that's on the street, regardless of what the problem is, you take them and convince them to be in a house. It doesn't matter if they're using meth, alcoholics, alcoholism, unemployed, etc. Put them in a house first. You know, a human. I have butted heads with him on that. Mainly because of working with hope, working with the hour center. Some people are so far gone that they cannot stand the pain. And Ellis, you know, from hopes gave us a good example and they've been working for years with one person, this one man, he finally allowed to be put in an apartment and I think it was a free room apartment. Better with that than a kitchen. When they went to visit him, he had put a tent in a living room. He could not take being confined. And that's where I butted heads with Michael. Is that you're creating a situation that we can always live up to. But they wouldn't help us with funding or anything. It wasn't housing first. But there are no statistics when we say when the statistics come out and they say we house so many people this year. My question is, how long did they stay in that unit? Are they still housed? Because those statistics don't come out. And that bothers me. So my, my reasoning is, like with the pellet structures, these are not overwhelming units. That would overwhelm the community. But it's a lot of operation. It's a lot of, I've been researching that and I met with them. So I can't send this, share this. This was my own account. Yeah. So through them. But it has several data points, statistics, as well as background information on the pellet structures and how different communities have tapped into various resources with their own police records and how they brought it all together. As well as tapping into people who have recovered, moved on, and then come back to support the project. So, you know, so that's what I've been researching on this. And it sounds like there are some churches who are interested in knowing more. And I definitely agree that we should have Elizabeth come out and share. You know, I'd be happy to participate and share what I, what I've learned as well. And, but we do, we have to have different things to be different needs. You know, I have family who struggled with drug addiction. And it is impossible. And it gets to the point, I've talked to friends too, who've also had situations where they're calling the police. I need them in jail. Because I know that they're not out there. Lundras, committing crime, that, that they are confined. Right. And so, but they, you know, bolder jail, I don't know, well, the best bet is that they call well police. And bolder, yeah, they can't. It's like they let them out on PR bond. And it's, and all it does is just cost already a traumatized family and individual, even more money, because of court fees and going through this stuff. So there's, there's that component. So just real quick, from what I've been hearing so far, just listening is that we are well resourced in a lot of ways. We've tightened up a lot of our ordinances from the public safety standpoint to, I think, a high point before we start really getting into possible litigation from ACLU against Boulder, as an example. So we're writing that line pretty closely. So I think from those points of view, what I've been hearing is that the biggest hole is dealing with the service-resistant portion of the UNS population. That's what I'm kind of hearing, you know, in different ways. And that's the most difficult, obviously, to deal with in a lot of ways. And so it seems like we have some different ideas about how to deal with them as far as not going too far, as far as bending over backwards for services-resistant folks, but having those resources available, and then also dealing with some of the public safety issues that occurred. So that seems to me, as counsel, to be where we need to focus. That's where we feel the hole is, maybe. And because we have to take it for a resource of an ability concept, too, is that I'd love to specifically make a shelter for women that are going through domestic violence issues and things like that. But that doesn't seem to be the biggest hole that we're seeing in our spectrum of resources as well as ordinances is what I'm hearing. I have a question for Eugene. Can I ask? Well, yeah, that's just a good step in direction. Okay. Well, it was just about the Boise case. So if we, if an individual, according to that case, my understanding, right from wrong, is that if we have available shelter or available space, we can legally remove them from a park or a public space. Generally, yes. Boise is the 9th circuit where this 10th circuit, so it's not finding precedent here. We have breaks that follow the Boise guidelines. Okay. So I mean, and that was one of the response to ACLU. Yeah, and we're working on space, but for our staff's time, I think that you're all right because it would be a great discussion of all council and to bring in, as we did some of those community meetings, the resource people who let hope tell us what they're facing, what they see every day, and hope would house people at the land fighter who need to say no more. And the cannolite, which is having problems right now. So it isn't easy to take a person and say housing first. Right. Yeah, because the... Good question. I know they do point in time. And I would like that point in time to be in the middle of the summer. And also to kind of separate out if possible how many could be caused by the service resistance. So that would help, I think, figure out how much resources at a time that we should allocate towards that specific subgroup. I think that would be very helpful. So let's think of a time when we could actually... Why don't we do it at a point in time? Usually. Yeah, so we're getting better data sets now because of L there and the work we're doing. And then we recently had a conversation with the county about sharing data sets because that was a big part of the problem is what we were just spending, we didn't have access. So we kind of overcame that problem about a month and a half ago. And so the data's going to start to kind of work better to us. You know, we know we had 1,900 interactions of which it was 348 unique individuals. Average number of contacts per individual is 5. You know, 85 or vital documents that we received, 28 coordinated entries, screens completely complete, 18 housing assessments, 302 referrals, 14 benefit applications, and 13 completed referrals verified. So you're starting to see how it's moving through. Yeah. The issue that we're now starting to see with the, you know, service-resistant is that, and we actually didn't talk about this in the housing, we talked about housing advisory board this meeting, is addiction to fentanyl fluid. And then, you know, Sarah talked about for now kind of fentanyl with another drug. Zilazine. Zilazine, which is absolutely, it's Narcan issues. Well, it's also, Zilazine apparently calls, Zilazine also causes major infections. And so what you're exciting is we're dealing with people that won't even go to the hospital, and they have massive infections that are going to be in there. But it's all because they don't want to stop taking fentanyl. And so, you know, the challenges we're moving through here, the thing I would say is we're having this conversation is resources are going to be an issue. Financial resources are going to be an issue.  If we're going to do this, then we're going to have to stop doing this, just because of the limitation on the money. Other than, you know, that we've used service-resistant, service-defiant, which are the, like the guy with the abscesses, or also like the guy that was pitching his tent out there, who really doesn't have any problems, except he thinks this is right to be out in the Odin River, camped on public property and using their math to this. Those are service-defiant people. I think that what was presented to the faith community is making the upper half or third of service-resistant because it's people whose resistance is based on a barrier, right? Either they have a glorophobia for being homeless for such a long time, or they have an attachment to a pet, or an attachment to a person, because a couple can't, regardless of the nature of the couple, they can't sleep together at home.  I agree with that completely, but if we can separate and offer to people who want to learn, who want help, who want that would limit the interaction of the severely housed who do not want to be announced, interacting with people who really would like to be housed. And that would help all of us. So, we have two more things that we need to do. So, can we think about if anybody wants to make a motion at some time, maybe, I don't know when the time will be, it would be up to staff to have this discussion and make it only this discussion, with motions and no, I'm talking about at some point. But maybe like designating a study session specifically. I like who we would like to come. Yes, that's an important part of the discussion, because I think that that we will suspects are moving out. Well, I think Jennifer Little-Bitch is a great resource if she's willing to have it. Brian Forbes. Brian Forbes, okay. Because of his experience. No, because of justice before, you could speak to the idea of drug courts and drug jails. Well, I agree, we have less like jail and jail to be arrested. Well, that's that, the versification. Yes. Let's just say you had to go with the top third of the service was a certified, it's kind of below any group. Obviously, that's the first thing you start, usually. Is it because of the beds? I mean, they're not the ones that get the residents of their arms. They could be still. Yes. So let's get the the effort like you suggested. I think it's a great idea.  Well, next week, the motion to be made an actual speaker. And then, at that time, we can maybe, you know, put it, figure out for most ourselves a list of speakers. And then when the motion is made, we can ask for, you know, to send that list to the Senate. And I think we got to be very specific to the speakers that we're not asking them to give an overview of what they're doing. We're asking them to give us their opinion of where the goal is. Yeah, the behavioral issues that we're talking about. Yeah. And then we want to know what they're seeing and what their data is telling them in regards to what that we were referring to the whole. Because I don't think we have the time to have them kind of give a real overview of what they do, but more assume that most people watching have a clue about what their goal is if they want to do a mission statement and go into that. Short presentations and then availability for back and forth in the council. So, um... Are you going to have the sheriff in the county there? Yes. Yeah. Or something. Maybe somebody in PA, maybe somebody in the sheriff's department. They're not just over shelter because Jones Wright, they have wanders on. Yeah. They've got their mission. Right. But we're breaking that barrier. And to the point about bringing the churches back in to Harold's point, they want to donate. So we're trying to figure out what kind of a process or mechanism do we need to let them do that so that it's not specific for one specific detail in the process, but for whatever we need to be driving on those sites. So it's a lot of examination. I'm going to move on because they do have two things here that I need to bring up. The first one is... No, we're not going to do that. Okay. So I have personal email from the resident about a post on social media by a council person that they were very, very unhappy about. I sent it to Eugene and Harold for consultation. And so I have to address... But we are a self-policing body. It is not up to me to address this, so I'm bringing it to you. I'm going to hand you the... I made a copy of the post. So I want you to read it and then we're going to go around the table for comments. But there are some questions I want you to answer while you're reading it. First of all, is this the type of behavior we respect with our counselors? What actions should we take if any? The possibilities are do nothing, reprimand, censure, remove as liaison from boards and commissions. That those are options that we have any comments at all. So I do want to talk to you also after this about the pumpkin body to be heard comment that I made. So let's make our comments on this thing and then your action is in there. So the email I got said is this what the employee... basically what the employees of the city is this subject. We are not employees of the city. We're employees of the residents. So much of a start with you. I think you should. First of all, this is taken up extremely out of context. Second, it's on my personal Facebook page and the thing that it sells on my personal Facebook page is this is my first personal Facebook page. Nothing I say here is speaking for the city of Longmont or the city of or the city council of Longmont. What was happening was these were posts in about the incursion of homeless people into Dickenshorn Park. We might go to the memorial day and everybody was upset because they were scared of homeless people and they wanted to go too big. And the discussion was about constitutional rights. They would say, why are these people there? Why don't you just run them out of town? And I said, they have constitutional rights. They can't be moved along until they've been ticketed. I went back and forth with the rangers and police and Harold all about what could be done or could not be done. And it was essentially trying to say, you have to treat homeless people like people. And I don't remember what the previous thing was, but yeah, the like that you don't want our systems to work. That was the acquisition that the acquisition that Pinsker had made to me. And I mean, this guy has a thing for me. So for example, I was involved with an anti-Valentine's Day pinata event at Longmont Public Media. And anti-Valentine's Day is a joke, right? I mean, it's a thing for singles who are not partnered and are not going to be partnered and nobody's buying them dinner. And so, you know, it's to make fun of them. Well, this guy thinks that a woman is getting out of her place as she makes from a Valentine's Day because she's threatening the male supremacist version of the male-female bond. And he said as much to me. And in fact, this thread has a perhaps a reference all the way back to that. So I think that first of all, I was acting properly. Second, this guy is out to discredit me. And third of all, it's a free speech on my Facebook, on my personal Facebook page. This isn't really about what the other person did. This is really about your post. I guess I have a question. So, um, Erin? Well, no, it's giving me more thoughts. Oh, no, they're not here for this. Are you here for the L.A. J. meeting? Yes, we are. Okay, then we haven't started yet. That's at 70. Oh, you're fine. Yeah, I guess my question is that if one of us had said all the stuff that you had said and posted all of that saying that this was your private Facebook page and everything like that, but the table's returned and it was one of your colleagues here, how would you feel? I wouldn't have a problem with it.  It's just, you know, part of the thing that we do as adults is try to model them what is the best way to do things. And probably when the internet was kind of young and Twitter was kind of young and 15 years ago and everybody was kind of shooting from the hip front, this sort of thing was more common because people didn't really know how long it would stay out there and perpetuate the society, but at this point we know that everything we ever put out in the internet at any point was there, you know, for forever. Yeah. So, um, Tim, Erin, and Cece, do you hear anything else? Well, yeah, I was, I wasn't going to weigh anything. I'm sorry, Erin. No, no, no, I was, you know, I totally raised my hand for a different reason, which was addressed. I will say personally that unless it's a leading counsel, say this, I believe it is a freedom of speech issue personally. It's stylistically not me. I don't, I don't engage on Facebook. I find it personally at least in my time, but more powerful. I should have a lot of times. I'll be honest with you.  You tell them, you know. And so I can't condemn it because to me it doesn't break any rules. It's not, again, not stylistically what I would do, but I don't, I don't, I think, you know, I'm capable of teachers that you're trying to set a good example. And I wish politicians at large would actually try to set that example. Maybe that's simply not the truth and not technically their jobs either. But, and so therefore I don't think it's March's job to teach a teenager how to be civil on social media. And so having seen many interactions, someone similar to this, I think that March knows a good job of separating the counsel's position and her position. And I therefore don't take issue with how she uses Facebook. Okay. So thank you for bringing that up. Because we do teach digital responsibility. Citizenship. Yeah, citizenship. So it's under digital literacy, but a portion of it is on our citizenship and conducting ourselves. One of the frustrations that I have since being on council, and this is not in relation to the particular, but I think I've had a conversation with you. I know I've had conversations with Sandy is, you know, and why my desire to see our rules of procedure updated that includes a social media component. You know, and I don't see any reference to her, you know, on this particular one, looking at that as a, you know, her identifying as a counsel or, you know, to what parents point that we are a counsel, that we use a counsel to believe this. So, but, you know, again, it's like our rules of procedure are very big. And it doesn't like what particular, you know, I think about when, as in my union capacity, we're dealing with members who are being recommended for whatever issue, you know, we go, we comb through the master agreement, which violation occurred here. We swole through our, our board policy, what, what component was violated here. And because I'm kind of scrolling up and down our own rules of procedure, what violation specifically can we pinpoint here, you know, because then it becomes our, our own personal assumption of, okay, well, this person said this, and then therefore that's a violation. It becomes very subjective. Okay. So, yeah, you know, my, my opinion is you need to update this, though, including some kind of social media component and how do we address that? Yeah, and again, like, this is not how I would, I don't know. So you're, you're okay with the, um, of the pre-speak. I think, you know, there is a fine line between that is, that it was free speech. Okay. Yeah. Jim? Well, it's not a fine line for me. It's, I don't care. Honestly, with any of you, put it in Facebook pages, unless you were representing me or city council, you're doing so, then I would care about it. Marsha can, whatever Marsha wants to deal with her Facebook pages, have a Marsha. Personally, I'm spending a lot of time in, in social media space. And if I was going to, here's just the honest truth, Jim, if I was going to make a list of things that I think to be egregious, that are far more, for me, a much bigger issue than this, are things that happen in the council chamber that, that, that we do in public. Honestly, if I was going to pick off things to, to, to, to take on, it wouldn't be this. Well, I just have to answer this, right? Yeah, I'm not going to do the one way, so I wanted your opinion. My response would be to say, if somebody wrote me an email complaining about any, well, any of the council members Facebook pages, I'd say social media is, is not the purview. We don't have policies that govern social media. That is you, it's the wild west. I'm spending a lot of time in there. Communicate, you can communicate directly to Marsha, this is Marsha Martin, write your letter to the editor, do whatever you think you need to do, go run for office, go support a candidate, but you've got to have an address, not a peel box to do that. No support a candidate, said tongue-in-cheek messages. First person, I just don't think, and I, and I think if we start down that path, then if I get emails about you, about other council members, do I bring that here? Somebody's complaining about something that happened or didn't happen? Well, you know, we brought this up in a retreat about social media. So for me, this is a good place to start as we look at real procedure and we look at decorum. We now have an opinion out there of the majority of council, and that's what I want. This isn't me either, right, in terms of my... No, I would never say those things to anybody or anybody, except me. For me? No, your language. Well, this is... I haven't given up the floor yet, have I? No, no, say it is me. In the retreat when we talked about social media, now, I took my cues from Sandy earlier. If you, you know, if you do this, actually, I've seen air postings from, from Erin, right, with information about the city, which she does a really good job of. I envy what Erin does on social media and on Facebook, bringing to attention, to attention about public things that are going on in the city. It's like, why does she look at it? They didn't keep sitting in front of it. So I appreciate it. Thinking I might do the same thing, but the caution from Sandy was be careful, right, on social media, because of what you can and can't do, who do you have to allow? I said, screw that. I am, I'll let him do it. Right, I'm just going to leave Jim. Right, and I'm going to spend much time with social media. Yeah, I think I just... Today, there was, there was a case that brought, that said that public officials can now block people.  Yeah, so, okay, I have a really quick, I have a couple of questions. A lot of you guys recognizing that, was this on your personal page or voice-up online? Okay, so that's my personal account. That's your personal account. So that's, you know, that, that is also a factor. The other, and I was going to ask a question, and I, I totally would skip my mind. Oh, I guess, no, it was the impacts to staff. That was the only thing that makes me cautious about ever posting anything, even if it's something very benign or informational, is if it is not totally, I get worried that if it could get taken out of context or escalating the impacts, get the impacts that it has on, it calls it staff receipt. That would be my, my only concern as a word of caution. Okay, Marcia, Q, oh, we're almost there, hurry.  And, and it's almost as if those are the only things in the post. But really, what the post is about, Marcia, I, I'm going to cut you off there, because you do that. Yeah, a lot. I do. And the reason is, I want, what I wanted from this group, and I got it, was not what the other person said, that's irrelevant. No, I wanted to talk about what I said, Joan. Okay. All right. What I wanted to talk about was, you don't have the right to run homeless people out on the rail. That was the statement that preceded this, and it resulted in me getting, getting, I don't know, it's going to take longer than more often that I'm interrupted. That me getting called someone who wanted chaos and wanted the system to break down. Thank you. So that, so you think, because I defend the rights of people, people believe that I don't want our systems to work. I want our systems to work. The truth is that everybody with the city works as hard as they can to make this a good place. Heart of keeping you all safe is helping you understand everyone's rights and responsibilities. Do you know that nobody called to complain about the campers? And that's the citizens' rights and responsibilities. If I had not responded to the Facebook Dickens reports, because nobody bothered to call, they just went posted it on Facebook, then other things going on elsewhere in the city by the testimony of the city manager would have been prioritized above this, which now these people would have continued to be unhappy. So even though I'm doing it as myself an engaged but fairly relevant citizen, I am in fact doing my best to get people to act right by educating them. And if you look at that dialogue, that's the spring under that post, go count the likes and see who the public in general agrees with. Count them. That's all I want you to say. All right, so I will just answer this gentleman as you directed to tell him it's free speech and that she has the right to say whatever she wants and that that's what social media is basically. I'm sorry, I wanted to talk to you about the, which is why I kept trying to move this on, about the public right to be heard, but it is seven o'clock and we have the LHG. So thank you all. Should we adjourn? Yes.


How to insert a hyperlink to your interesting Word document article to quickly access the internet source and references and link your information directly to its web articles. Arlene here, welcome to Burn to Learn. In this Hyperlinks Part 1 video, we'll focus on how to create hyperlinks that directs us to a document title, to a specific page in the text and how to add it to an image. Up in the Insert menu, we'll find the links area. There are three different options there, hyperlinks, bookmark and cross-reference. In this video, we'll focus on the hyperlink feature. We gotta have our headings already in a list format. We'll select the first heading and click on the hyperlinks button. An option window will open. We will click on the Place in this document button. What this does is that it will create a direct shortcut to this subheading within the document. Click on our heading and then click OK. Now a hyperlink has been created inside our document. In fact, you can tell because even the heading has automatically been underlined and blue colored. How can we check our hyperlink works? We'll do it by selecting the Read Mode option down at the bottom. And now clicking on our subheading. Ah, now the hyperlink has taken us directly to this article inside the document. We'll exit the Read Mode by clicking on Print Layout. Let's try our second hyperlink function and now even using a shortcut. We'll do so by selecting the click here to read complete article text and right-clicking on it. As you can see, the hyperlink option is there to click it and this time we'll select the Existent Files or Web Page option. Up on top we have the option to change the text we desire the hyperlink to show on the text to display. You can always edit this. We now have to put the website link where we want to direct the reader for a complete article view in the web. We'll paste our link in the address box and click OK. Let's check our hyperlink works again by selecting the Read Mode and clicking on our new hyperlink. And there it is. It has opened the direct web source where the article is hosted. But what about hyperlinks and images? Please like this video and leave a comment. Let's talk about our third feature by scrolling down to our next subheading. Right-click on the image, select hyperlink and paste the URL link previously selected of this image article and click OK. A hyperlink has now been attached to the image. Let's prove this by repeating our checking process using the Read Mode. You can now access direct to the website from the image by just clicking on it once a little white hand appears. Or by pressing down the control key while you click on the image, the same little white hand has to appear. And there, we're now at the image website. Now you know how to create hyperlinks inside your Word document. On our next Hyperlinks Part 2 video, we'll show you three more easy and practical hyperlink features using Microsoft Word 2016.


Hi, this is Hilary Basel for Ohio University Libraries. In this video, I'm going to show you how to find articles from law reviews using the database HINE Online. To get to HINE Online from the library homepage, select the database tab and type HINE Online. Click on the purple connect button. If you're off campus, you'll be asked to log on with your Ohio ID and password at this point. So we're on the homepage of HINE Online now. You can see on the left all of the different collections HINE Online contains. Right now we're just interested in searching for law review articles, which is linked at the top. If we wanted to search a more specific set of law journals, we could select one from the list underneath. But I want my search to be as comprehensive as possible, so I'm going to select the general law journal library. On the search page, I'm going to go straight to the advanced search because it will let me be more precise in my search. So I'm going to use the search terms human trafficking and United Nations. Note that it tells us here that you need to put Boolean operators in all caps in this database. Boolean operators are the words connecting search terms. In this case, I'm using and because I want to find articles containing both terms. Next, I'm going to select human rights under subject. And finally, I'm going to go deselect the box next to include results from other HINE Online collections. I only want to search the law journal library. So here are how many results I have. Right now my results are sorted by relevance. If I want to see the articles that have been cited the most, I can go to sort by and select number of times cited. This will show me the most cited articles at the top of the results. If I want to quickly see where in a given article my search terms occur, I can click on view matching text pages. If I want to read further down where a search term occurs, I have the option to go directly to that page. Once I'm in the page view, I can move to other articles in my results by selecting them on the left without having to go back to the search results page. I can pull up a list of articles that cite the article I'm looking at by selecting the link toward the top of the page. This is a really good feature to use if I'm writing a literature review and I want to find as many sources that are relevant to a given issue as I can, or if I just want a better sense of the impact an article has had and the wider scholarly conversation that it's a part of. Finally, if I want to download an article, I can click on the printer icon at the top. This will open a new page where I have the option to print or download as a PDF. If you have any questions about Hine Online or any other library resources, don't hesitate to ask us.