What you can't explain this can you my name is Jimmy his name is Jake and this is the weekly Dam nice shades cook cut my shades my cut Jim. How are you?   Get ready Burning Bruce Buffer makes a living doing that vanity white crazier living in the city Royals season's done They stink. They been had stink. There's a Royals baseball game Bobby Whit Jr. Walk off Grand Slam 102 in on his hands gets his hands in home run Little girl crying in the stands. It's her favorite player. It's her favorite team families visiting Georgia. She missed the pitch very cool Very cool Yeah, very cool. I like the hat. I like the jersey. Yes. She cried Yes, it's nice to have passion about things and good for Bobby Whit for hitting that home run. What else? She missed pitch, but we're not gonna harp on that. She's a new baseball fan. She could have been a fan for years So don't speak out of turn. I'm gonna try not to speak out of turn. Yeah Let's go Royals Jim. What's this almost a breakdown you've been telling the people about the Friday night Apple game had two fun Lipperings It was the Friday night Apple game. No one sees it. You want me to not say that? I don't know It's funny angels blue jays. Yes. Oh, Tony Homer's in his first at bat and Matt Chapman says to his manager Why'd you pitch drum?  He's right. No Right, he's right. They're onto us as all the players. We need more hitters in that same game Our guy Phil Nevin manager of the angels didn't like the last pitch of the game You read his lips, and he just says MF for MF like motherfucking M And then he grabs the tablet and shows him from really far away It's so funny right now We are just absolutely in a tweener area where missed pitches are gonna be Reviewable like in the next three years like easily they're doing it in minor leagues Yes, but it's such a no-no between managers and umpires to show them video evidence Which is ridiculous Like when Jim Joyce blew that call for the perfect game the entire baseball watching nation was like, okay I think we can let's you know what let's do it. Let's go replay in might have been the next year Have they not maybe two years that yeah, given him the perfect game. Yes, there's people watching this show right now That will leave in the comments The human element Those people are the worst man imagine he didn't get to play the game There's people that think there's cameras and mics There's people that think they think that Jim should be 100% of the population should be like yeah The record book should change that to a perfect game It doesn't affect anyone doesn't affect any it was the last out except like a sad man But there's it's like a coin flip between baseball fans of if they should do that or not Armando Galaraga Right now and Jim Joyce Is this brought to us by anyone yeah seed geek Go watch this or a perfect game get blown Jim this more sports story. I've been trying to tell you about My guy Darnell right three two one seven one this offensive lineman did the wide receiver Conditioning test and he crushed it. Yeah, but he's kind of blowing The spot up for every offensive lineman. They sent him the wrong packet. Hey work on this stuff before you come to camp show up Ready, why don't they just always do that? They're going to now. Yeah, maybe it was the last straw I think this was an inside job.  Yeah What was this not sports this not sports no way this not sports a worm has been revived after 46,000 years in Siberian permafrost. I've got such bad news for the people doing this No one cares you could tell me a worms a hundred years old.  I don't care at all. You just gotta find a species more Leveled up than a worm Heartbeats from ten thousand no into this at all. No one cares about this. Can I tell you something that's a lie?   It's inside boxing livers talking giants.  You guys get to choose uh Ronnie and Dan did good work, but so did Justin and Bobby Justin and Bobby been crushing it giants Camp doing lives. They had a huge crowd. They've been in tons of views on their live streams and then yeah Canobio and Ronnie went to the boxing match. Did you watch it? No, I watched UFC man.  Yeah We put a pool in my backyard and then there was just so many frogs like 50 frogs a night dying in the pool And uh, the guy was like, well, yeah, you messed up the ecosystem here because uh, we didn't get any What do you say? You didn't know there was that many frogs didn't know there's that many frogs and he said that Uh, we got so much snow that it kept the snakes away So nothing was eating the frogs and I was like, dude, what's happening in my backyard? You'd be swimming and then you'd just be like, there'd be not a joke 10 dead bloated floating frogs In the pool with you all of a sudden it took away from the experience for a little bit It was wild because swimming's nice, but like dead frogs.


Today I have the pleasure and the privilege of interviewing Executive Vice President and CFO, Mr. Andre Gotten. How are you today Andre? I'm good, thank you. Normally we don't interview the CFO but you're also the Executive Vice President. Can you tell us a little bit about your role at Intel Genics Technologies? I work very closely with Dr. Zerbe. I have great respect for him and also for the rest of the team. Of course we're really excited to talk to you about your recent deal with Tidalafil. Can you tell us more about this? This deal is probably the best deal that we ever signed at Intel Genics and it will probably start generating revenue by mid-year 2018. For all of those out there who are new to Intel Genics, they have a very interesting business model. Andre, can you tell us a little bit more about this business model? Yeah, our business model consists of five sources of revenue. We basically get upfront payment, R&D milestones, sales milestones, royalty or profit split with our partner and finally manufacturing revenue. We get manufacturing revenue when we are at the commercial phase of the project. Based on your business model, can you tell us how that translates to revenue and what we might anticipate for 2017? Yes, 2017, most of our revenue will be coming from R&D revenue. This is the great thing about signing multiple partner, Kimo being one of them. Depending on where the project is at the moment of the signing, we will get more or less R&D revenue. In this case, we'll get more than less R&D revenue in 2017 because the projects are just starting. One of our investor Intel members sent me a question asking me why you guys are manufacturing your oral films and why you're not outsourcing this. Can you explain this to us? Yeah, I mean, very simple answer. We get the margin in house as opposed to giving the margin away to contract manufacturing. So that's the main reason. Also, what's very important to us is to keep our know-how, keep our trade secrets in-house. So by having our own plan and manufacturing the product, then we keep all our intellectual property in house. How many people do you employ? And can you tell us a little bit more about your manufacturing facility? We employ about close to 30 people in total. Most people are in R&D because this is our main expertise. And the manufacturing, in regards to the manufacturing facility, it is in the process of GMP approval and certification by L Canada so that we can start manufacturing commercial goods by late 2017. Well Andre, is there anything else you'd like to add about why we should get excited about Intel Genics?  Can you give us any additional data? I think that I fully agree with you when you mentioned that we're undervalued. I think it's a very good entry point right now. There's a lot of things happening, a lot of exciting things. We've been doing a lot of partnership and more to come. And with that recent, you know, the Dalla Field license, we feel that, you know, for any new investor, it's really the right time to come in because I see this company going and growing, you know, quite a bit in the near future. Well, you said it best, Andre. And thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you very much.


done this year, let's hop in. What better time to do a pack opening video than when Ultimate Legends dropped. Ultimate Legends has players like Bo Jackson, Jamal Charles, Dante Culpepper, and there's a limited junior Seyao and Russ Riff. The card art is sick. We're approaching team of the year. We're approaching golden tickets. Let's see if we can't pull a limited right now. There's the Ultimate Legends combo button. Contains four UL Legend fantasy packs, two Ultimate Legends packs, two 95 plus guaranteed, and four Ultimate Legend loyalty tokens. Let's send it, baby. Let's go. I'd be lying if I said Wheel of Mutt wasn't draining my coin count, so here we are. Starting out with Core, Elite, Kyle Pitts, and the zero chill player, Nico Collins, okay? And there's the Ultimate Legend animation. I wonder if the limited have a different animation. I kinda doubt it, but you never know. We're gonna start out with an 87 Jamal Charles, 87 Charles Haley, 87 Gary Zimmerman, and a 91 Carmichael. Every time we get a 91, it's an awesome pull. Mount Blunt on the thirst. Five rounds to this. Oh, Nolan Kerr, Nolan Cromwell. Out of position tight end, 95 overall. I'm the first pack. Get it, baby. We'll take that. We'll take 91 Willie, and I'll take 87 Bow. Round four, I assume is something really good.  I'm a fraud. Wait, so then what's round five? Round four is the token, round five is the 95. Am I a fraud? Why are there two rounds dedicated to a token? Hey, I pulled a 95, so I'm not mad about it. Oh, they just cucked me. They got me all excited. Little blue balls right there. That was uncool. Honestly, I didn't read the fine print, so maybe that's on me. And if you want a better sex life in 2023, make sure to check out today's sponsor, Roman. Roman is the digital health clinic for men. One of the products that I've talked about for a long time is Roman Swipes. These are discrete wipes that help you last four times longer in bed with no prescription needed. Not a bad deal. 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Kyren Johnson, London Fletcher, loyalty token, Dante Culpepper, and Zandy Horva. All right, it's the 95 pluses. This is the exact spot we need to clutch up. 97, 97, 97, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. Out of position, darn Charles Hayley. What are we doing, EA? Why does that even exist?  Oh, that's like the best one to get, dude, 97 bullets, a monster. He's gone for 600 some thousand coins right now. I am actually gonna sell him and probably buy Jamal Charles if we're gonna do some gameplay today, only because I have this Bo Jackson on week. Do you guys know that I have my wheel of mud? Ooh. Well, you know what? You just gotta, do you guys know that already? You just gotta spoiler potentially. No, maybe I'm a fraud. Maybe you already know that, whatever. Well, if you watch this video, I love you, I know it's not wheel of mud, but I still love you. There is a superb value pack. You gotta love when EA tells you it's a superb value. Seven times 91 plus Ultimate Legends player and you get some tokens. I'm actually gonna try this. Seven, 91, what a weird pack to give out, but I will take it. Our first 91 plus is a 91 on the dot. That's not a good open. We just needed, we need 195, at least 195 and we're smooth sailing on the exact same card I just got. Come on, a little creativity would go a long way here.  How about just 97? 91 a Lodi Nada?  You better give me a 90s, 70s next to, or I'm filing a formal complaint.  No way you give me 7.91s.  I said I was doing a big pack opening today, so we're gonna rip the combo bundle once again. We've got a 97 Bo Jackson to speak for itself, so that's a very good start. But hopefully our luck doesn't end there. We start out with two 91s in the first round and right here, we've got not do it. How did I just get him twice? 95 Cromwell once again on the first bundle. We take those and then we got two tokens on the way here as well. Lester Hayes, first round's no bueno. Second round starts out, starts out hot. Damn, the triple 91. We take those, let's get it. And two tokens, of course, we knew that. All right, our 295 plus is the absolute best pull I actually think is Russ Grimm. I think the limited guard is the best. 95 right tackle, Mel Blunt. Who's making this shit? Who's making this shit? Whatever. Come on baby, I went 95, 97 last time. I'll go 95, 95 this time. It's another Bo Jackson though. Why don't I just use 95 quarterback Bo Jackson? Actually, he's probably cracked. He gets discounted abilities. Why do you get discounted abilities? Why? He gets tank and fear, wait, tank?  Why do you get a hot route master? Get out of here. You could run a hot route master pass lead lead tank. I'm doing it. Who's gonna stop me? I'm doing it. Whoa, calm down Jamal. Don't pull out the nine. I'm running hot route master pass lead lead tank Bo Jackson with freight train. I'm just gonna go best team overall. I'm gonna see what my team would look like. So Bo can't be both quarterback and half-back. So currently my half-back is Tevin Coleman. Bo is QB1. Nolan Cromwell is tight end one. Mel Bluntz my right tackle. Charles Haley's my left guard. On defense there's London Fletcher, Alody Nada and not much else for Ultimate Legends. Is there a house rules? I kinda wanna, I wanna test out this Bo quarterback. All right, super plays. There is a house rules. All right, quarterback Bo Jackson. Let's go have some fun. Hey Echo, who is today's inspiring woman? Who is your inspiring woman for February 26th? We do not care. Dude, he's even one. No serve. Drop back and guard. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, I'm scared down the middle. Yes. I'm there, I'm there.  What?  Does he get five points for the two-point aversion? Like does he beat me right here if he gets this? He's so mad if I lose right now. Alody Nada. I got a bad timing ball hoax. I would've actually got points I think in this game mode for an interception. All I'm doing anyway is going around Bo. I think this is a man blitz. Go Bo.  Oh, high row master tank and pass lead lead.  It's gonna be the same thing. Oh, no sir, no way that Bozo just got. Third and 14? Michael Irvin's wide open. I'll just take that. Hey, hey, let's go. First and goal. We gotta get Bo in the end zone. Let's go, Bo. Tank Bo Jackson. Tank Bo Jackson. Shit, he knows. All right, I'm gonna try and roll out left. Maybe this time. Maybe that'll work. Give me the double. Okay. Okay, come here. I feel like you hit sticked. He has paused the game. Six hours later. Ooh, a QB spy? Yeah. Laser.  Dude, that was a laser. I feel like I have to go QB draw here. Like he's gonna put a QB spy on me but I don't care, I'm going QB draw. Let's go. Go, Bo. Get it, get it in there, Bo. He's cracked. I think that's ball game. I think I get five for that. Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait a minute. So I got a point for getting that. I broke his up. He didn't get his and he got a point? Like why did he get a point? So it's literally pointless. There is no point during the Dubai conversion. Big hit, we need a big one. Shit. Dude, he's gonna win. I'm gonna be so pissed if he wins. Just gonna drop everyone into coverage. We're gonna cover everything.  Oh, you know you're thinking about it. He's totally thinking about it. Shit, second and goal. We got a clamp right here. Box like a fish. No, no, and he broke the tackle. Oh, you're so lucky. How did you get that? All right, let's take another crack at it. Ooh, he's got Super Bowl Mahomes. This team's the real deal. You don't see a lot of people run the ball in this. Oh, did I guess pass? I must have. Yeah, yeah, I don't expect people to run the ball in it. So that was kind of an elite play call right there. All right, bud, let's throw a laser. That made no sense. How did you just do that?  Nobody touched him. What was that? Literally, nobody touched him. Okay, nobody touched that, dude. What did we figure out? Nanoblitz is in the fun game mode? What is this shit?   Why do you know Nanoblitz is in house rules? Go outside. I'm telling him to go outside, but I'll be honest, I haven't seen grass in a millennium. I don't even know what it looks like anymore. Look at Kromi. Look at Kromwell.  We're still getting to that end zone. Oh, Bo's gonna get the take off here. Go with the playmaker, but it don't matter because we got Bo and Kromwell throws a block. We got Matt at the goal line. I guess I could have dove. Gonna run right side. Do we have it? Hey, I got a little cheese on my own. Probably a right side run if it is a run. It's not a run, it is a pass. Is that open? Wow. That guy had two one-play touchdowns, a run play, a Hail Mary, another day, another L. All right, guys, we have no choice, but to simply win the ball game.  I owe you. Let's go. There's one thing I did learn in this video though. Is that this Bo Jackson's actually nasty?  This Bo Jackson is built like that. Kromwell, laser, just kidding.  Fourth and 10. I need a big one here.  Can I take this guy on?  I didn't get any interference.  What are we doing, Palamalu? You are in man coverage. How? I don't need any explanation for it.  Two-point conversion does not matter what happens here.  I hope you get this. I honestly don't know how he got that, but he doesn't get any extra points for it, so it is whatever, but damn.  That was a Madden mobile fullback fake, hat-back toss, a classic super heater play.  Why are there nanoblitzes in this? No! Why can I detackle legitimately not get touched? I don't know if I've ever seen that in football in my entire life. I'm gonna go and coyay out the backfield and I'm just gonna lose another game. This cap! But this cap! But this cap! All right, you commie fraud. Let's go Jay Jettas. That's the pass here. Nice! That's not a first, though.   Get one baby yard, of course. The right end does not get blocked. He flattens me and it's gonna be game. Okay, fourth and 10. I technically could get the ball. I have one yet. I have to go three yards.   I was right there, you guys. And I'm not gonna get this. Oh, I'm so sticky! Let's go! I own you! That was actually a nasty pick six. I put the brakes on multiple. Woo! Let's go! Finally got it done. I know I said I'm doing less videos like this, but I was just in a mood today to put out another heater, you know? So I love you guys, but some more really big content on the way. Actually, a brand new massive series is on the way. I can't wait for you guys to see that. I'll actually give you a sneak peek. It's called Madden Survivorman.  It's gonna be so sick. All right, I love you guys. Thanks for watching as always. I'll see you in the next one. Peace!


The worst thing the narcissist can imagine you always felt like something was not right with the narcissist They were always behaving in a strange way They did things that you didn't expect them to do And you may have assumed that it was the result of some childhood trauma You may have assumed that maybe they went through something when they were younger So you stuck with them You try to help them You try to make them feel more comfortable, but then you later discover just how evil they really are You discovered that they know exactly what they are doing.  What if you got rid of them before they had the chance to take everything you have That would be the narcissist's worst nightmare That would be the worst thing that they can imagine They can't imagine anything worse than that Because they know you've figured them out They know you're never going to see them in the same way ever again So what hope do they have of coming back? The narcissist knows when you're on to them They know when you've figured them out They're very sensitive to certain changes in the environment They know when you see them differently They will even start an argument Just to see how you react Because it tells them where you are in the mind It tells them what you're thinking and what you're planning to do But if you don't react And you manage to get away without suffering any punishment or injury It destroys them It's the worst thing they can imagine Because you've ruined their plans for you They didn't finish using you up They didn't get revenge Because you disappeared secretly and unexpectedly Before they had the chance to do that And that's really the best thing you can do in these situations Because nothing good is going to come out of confronting them or exposing them That's not going to make them change The only thing you can do is leave Without letting them know what you're planning to do Because it will only make them mad It will only make them turn against you And then they will be able to get away They will try to beat you to the punch They will try to get you before you get them They will try to destroy your life as much as they can Before you get the chance to leave Because they know what you're about to do If you've already warned them that you're planning to leave Which is why you have to move in stealth mode Where they're unable to detect your moves Because they're very unpredictable You never know what they're going to do to you But whatever it is It's going to make it difficult for you to move on And live a happy and fulfilling life that is free from abuse Because they can't deal with the thought of you moving on and being happy That's the narcissist worst nightmare They can't imagine anything worse than not being able to affect you Thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coaching Inquiries You can email me at coaching.narksurvivor.co.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Failed new supply When a narcissist is seeking new supply They can be very gullible Anyone can sell them a dream They always think the grass is greener on the other side And they're always looking for the next shiny new toy So they will often fall into the arms of a master manipulator or another narcissist Someone who is just as crazy and delusional as they are Or they may just find someone who is not as great as they initially thought they were They may have made a bad decision Because they do have poor judgment They lack logical thinking And they tend to act on their emotional impulses And they want things to move fast Before their supply has the chance to figure them out For these reasons they often make a lot of mistakes And they can end up in situations that are worse than when they were with you When this happens They may often re-idealize you and try to come back to you But it's not because they love you or miss you They just miss their supply Life was a lot easier when they were with you You caved into their demands You did things that most people would not do When they said jump you said how high And they know that it would be difficult for them to find something like that again Because a lot of people are all about themselves Or they just haven't got the time So they want to come back to where things were predictable Where they felt comfortable and secure But it's not because they care about you You're just an object to them A tool Someone who regulates their emotions They lack empathy So they can't connect to you or be vulnerable They can only elevate themselves at your expense And leave you feeling a lot worse than before you met them They want something If you loaned the narcissist a lot of money You probably wouldn't hear from them for a while And the bigger the loan The longer amount of time they'd be away from you In some cases you may never hear from them again But if they do decide to come back It's only because they want something They use us Which is why everything is always one sided They just take and never think to give back to you Because they're mean and selfish They're manipulative and deceptive And most of them don't even have the means So all they can do is trick and fool you Which will often leave you feeling sad and depleted But it's due to their childhood traumas and how they were raised Their parents likely ignored their needs when they were growing up Or maybe they were emotionally or physically abused So of course they would become users And only come to you when they want something When people didn't get their needs met That makes them want to turn the tables on you when they get older People who had a healthier upbringing may be more empathic And they will feel bad or shameful if they can't or don't reciprocate something back to you But Narcissus No You will not experience that from them Because they have a void that can never be felt So no matter what you do for them It will never be enough They will always feel ungrateful and dissatisfied Five They're studying you Narcissus are always on the hunt for supply And they're always managing risks or threats to the illusion of their false character Because they're very paranoid and afraid of being exposed for the frauds that they are So they will come back to learn your behaviour And to gather more dirt To look for or expose information about you So that they smear your name To isolate and control you And cut off any other sources of influence or support Because this is all a threat to their false image They're at risk of being exposed It's a threat to their supply And nothing is more important to them than their supply Without it they would feel like they don't even exist It feeds their ego It makes them feel powerful and important And it sustains their false sense of self So if they fear that you might threaten to expose them They will come back to control this credit or destroy you Thank you for watching If you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up Share your thoughts in the comment section Hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications If you would like to support the channel You can donate at paypal.me.narc-survivor You can book up one on one with me on my website It's narc-survivor.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


So this meeting is being recorded to the town of Amherst YouTube channel. It will be uploaded by our IT department. And I think everyone for joining us at this time, there's, there are not members of the public in the attendee room. I will make the chair, the host of the meeting and. Okay. I wish you all a great meeting. Thank you. Bye bye. Thank you for the list of names that you're going to refer to. Okay. I'll read the thing pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021. This meeting will be conducted via remote means. Members of the public who wish to access the meeting can do so by clicking on the live link to this zoom meeting. That can be found on the public meetings calendar on the town of Amherst website or by dialing in by phone. The public is able to comment during the public comment segment of. The posted agenda by raising their hand. This meeting is being recorded and will be posted to the town of Amherst YouTube channel. All right. And sorry, I had a time if I sound stuffy or sneeze and sesame because I've got really bad allergies today for some reason. All right. So. Do we have any members of the public with raised hands? No, we do not. All right. So for chair report. I've talked to Kamal Peters about poetic dialogue. He's, he's on the mend and he's working again. So he'll be doing it very soon. He was very distraught about the whole situation. And he's an Amherst native. He's very anxious to get it fixed. He just had to do like a couple of quick things first, because while he was out, you know, he's an independent artist. He was making no money. So he had just had to do a few things quick to make some money so that he could pay the rent. But we're like at the top of his queue for getting some stuff done, getting that point of dialogue back to normal. It's going to require taking it down again and taking off the old rebar and then issuing new rebar and putting in new holes into the rocks and putting it in. How much is that going to cost? Him. I'm, he's absorbing the costs. So I'm not, I don't know how much it's going to cost him. Aside from his time, but like for materials, I don't know. But it's not going to cost us anything, which is good news for us. I mean, it's bad news for him. He, he realizes he made the mistake and he's upset about it. But it does like turn it like, like, I guess already the job was kind of like, not a very high paying one for him, but he did it for his love for Emerson, then like getting all the attacks and stuff made it just kind of like, oh man, come on. He was just trying to do a good thing and he just, he made a mistake. He made an honest mistake and he owns to his mistake and he realizes that, you know, it was totally his mistake. It is sad. The whole thing is very sad because he's a good, a good artist and he's standing by his work. He just had a, what he calls a brain fart. But, you know, yeah, he's not the first. It won't be the last. I think he said that true thing. I guess the other thing I've got to say can go into other things so we can move on to making it public. Making it public. I've got a meeting. Let me look it up to so I can tell you exactly what it is. If anyone else wants to join, maybe I can get another slot and it's going to be on Wednesday, the 31st of August at three. It's going to be Marine Pollock is going to be going into that meeting. She's part of the planning board. And she's going to be kind of like the, the wheel that grinds through the project. And I'm going to be going to that meeting. There's other people in town that are going to be going to that meeting. And other entities in the town. I'm not sure exactly who else all is going. I don't think. Marine entirely knows right now either. I don't know. I've got a couple ideas. Do you guys have any ideas that we want to throw into the pot for making it public ideas? I don't really know where it stands exactly. And so I don't know what the meeting that you're going to is focused on or anything like that. Yeah, I don't think there is a focus yet. I think that's like, we're trying to, this is just like an initial brainstorm. I'm not sure how we're going to go into this. I think sort of. I mean, I think it's just as to how to. Benefit the town from being part of the making it public. See thing that the state's done. Yeah. Okay. So, um, I guess one thing I think is that. I think that this commission needs to make some kind of big And like I've said a lot of times if, if the money from the building projects. Truly materializes the accountability of the commission is going to be. At stake. Yeah, us. Yeah. Commission meeting us commission. Yeah. Okay. And I, you know, everybody right now likes to talk about how. The federal CDC leads by. Following.  Do you want to, how much do you want to have policies and vision. Already intact and ready to deliver as a group. To entities like the planning board. When you're asked to, to do something. Like, I, I sent you. So she'll show on some. Really short. Random samples of public commissions. And art entities calling for public art. Within their communities of different sizes. But you can see by the language in it and by the. Targeted nature of a lot of it. They have really specific things in mind. I mean, I'm not saying we have to do this, but it seems like if the commission wants to feel that it's got a real. Voice in the mix. We've got to have some, some kind of vision. Like it can be real small. You know, but I, I have, I've been coming to the meetings now for almost a year. And I still feel like I don't know what's going on. But I do know that those utility boxes have been painted. And I think they're great. And I know that the park, Kendall park, I guess it's called. Had stuff in it and then removed from it and maybe is coming back. It's the, the Frank grid and spoon stuff that is there now. Oh, it is. Yeah. I feel, I feel incompetent in terms of like really, I feel like I'm in a pain storm because I don't know where I'm supposed to be going. So, Dara, how would you accomplish making these big decisions and coming up with a voice? What steps would you take? Well, I think we're, we as a group, that's what you do in a meeting, you talk about what if, and, and then you, you don't try to settle on something right away, but you get ideas about how you can represent. A broad responsible vision of art in a very sweet, small community like Amherst, it's a great town for art. It's always loved it. It's got plenty, plenty things about it that really like shows that it tears about it. You know, and so I remember in one meeting, Bill talked about how this commission was ignored when the planning committee did its report that we were sent and artists talked about a whole lot in the, whatever document we were sent. But I don't know. I just don't know what I actually don't know what I'm supposed to do. Well, I'm trying to figure out how you would propose to move from the abstract to the specific. I don't have a problem agreeing with you on your abstract ideas, but then you have to move down to some very specific things. So give me an example of a specific and then I'll know what territory I'm supposed to be in. Well, a specific would be we would like to see more visual art in public spaces and Amherst perhaps, we would like to promote more concerts on weekends, perhaps that kind of thing. Those are specific so you can if you talk on the abstract level as I like to think to, but that doesn't you need to turn it into reality. It has to be. It has to be concrete. I think I think that's what I'm actually asking for is that as a commission as a group. We do some kind of talking about specifics and and make a kind of cope not not strict but coherent kind of Pat like you want to cover all the arts.  I know there's plenty to do with written things all over the place. It's like, so I understand that and then so what do we say, do we say, oh, we want to put a call out for X. And you look you think about what is that going to include. Is it going to be like something for people in it like for teenagers to do something special for art. You know, there's so many categories you can break down into and I don't have a big preference or anything I just wanted us to maybe talk about it at some point. Yeah, well, that's why I think we need to talk about what kind of projects we would want to bring forth in this meeting because I've got three ideas so far for this, this making a public project. And I was just wondering if you guys I was hoping that you guys would have some ideas to, or, or maybe you guys could help me develop my three ideas that I'm going to bring. Great. So, can we hear your ideas. Yes, definitely I just what was wanting to hear your ideas first if you guys had anything, but I've got three ideas. One is realignment park. It's looking rather shabby, and it's actually like a little piece of downtown Amherst that belongs to the art commission. And it's been gone to seed it doesn't look good. Where is it. It's, um, do you know where like that metal cow is downtown. Yes.  There's a little spot with like a little stone that says like realignment park art commission. That's so funny. I've never noticed that little sign and I walk by there a lot. Exactly. And how much you have with your ballpark estimate of the space, like 10 by 15 or 10 by 10, like, yeah, maybe 10 by 10, maybe a little bit longer. I'm not really sure I've never seen it like plotted on a map.  So, well, that's, that's a good thing. That's, that's a good thing to focus on. That's got to something. I felt like that for a while, but it's just never been a priority because it's not like splashy, I guess, or something. Yeah, I'll commit to going and looking at it before between now and the next meeting and trying to come up with some ideas of what might be installed there. Yeah, actually, if you could look at it before the 31st, and then either call me text me or email me any ideas that you might have because the 31st is that meeting. Do you have any ideas right now that you kind of have just speculated about for there now. I, I could have vision a few different things going on I could see like, maybe like a, like a bench to sit and write poetry or something with flowers around, or I could see like some sort of sculpture thing going in there. I wonder, yeah, I like the, I like that it's small, I think that's very cool to have a real small, small thing to work on. You know, Can I just make a point please send them to Ellen but do not send copies to anyone else or discuss them because, or you could discuss them if you only send them to Ellen. Send them to a quorum of the committee, it will possibly have violated the law, especially if you discuss them. Okay. Anyway, oh okay so in fact, Jim you were telling me in a way that we can't discuss things except in an open meeting. Well we can right now because we don't have a quorum. Oh, we're not even having a meeting right now. No, it's not a legal meeting we don't have a quorum. Oh, okay. According to Angela she says a quorum is the majority of your total allotted members and we only have four members out of seven so unless we get everybody here we don't have a quorum, according to her. I don't doubt her but being a lawyer I'm going to check. I don't think everybody has to be somewhere to make a quorum that otherwise the word quorum means nothing. Her definition of quorum is a majority of the people who could be appointed which is seven. The people who have been appointed is four. I say it could be. I think a quorum makes more sense if it's the number of people who are sitting inactive. Right. But she cited open meeting law and I'll go check. Okay. I like the answer so I'm going to say, if I like the answer I just keep my mouth shut. Right, right. Which means we can't actually vote on minutes today. Nope. Oh no really you got those minutes that you asked. Yeah. Yeah. Good. I mean she knows what she's doing so the chances are very high that she's right. I just, you know, wanting knowledge that. From what she said then there will potentially be more members by the next time we meet. Yeah, that would solve the problem another way. Yeah, I would really like that. Yeah, that's like it's just too much for, you know, three, sometimes four of us. And there's so many more kinds of representation that can go on. Anyway, I like that. I like the idea of a sculpture in that space. I, I don't favor a bench that you can write poetry on because I think people will sit on it and not write poetry. Well, we have a lot of benches anyway and that's okay. I mean I think sculpture is always kind of great because it's, it's it is more abstract to use that word you were taught using earlier. And it allows people to have really very immediate involvement with see seeing what they see, you know, and saying something about it and that's good. Yep. So I think we should probably get some kind of focus on something we can manage, like let's promote sculpture in various places let's let's pick something that we can deal with, and try to get that promoted. But I'm interested in the other two ideas that show. Well, one is my pie in the sky event that I've been dreaming about for years of having like on Indigenous people's weekend have like when all the foliage is in full effect. I'm having a hike on the Robert Frost trail event, where there's like different spots along the trail where there's different art going on like there'll be some dance, there'll be some poetry readings, there'll be some music. Am I forgetting anything maybe some plein air art painting, you know, and like people could walk through, you know, a stretch of the Robert Frost trail and experience all these different kinds of art while they're also enjoying the foliage. And I've have a alternate idea with this of having it on the rail trail so that it would be accessible to the disabled to which seems like it would be a little more grant worthy if it was right accessible. Okay, so I think if we do something like that, somehow it ought to tie in the generating support for art, and in particular probably us, but only because we're charged with supporting art. I think the way it would support art is that we would pay the artists that would be at the different stations. Yeah, but I'm thinking about something continuing or something having lasting impact, because I believe we've discussed that we don't have much impact which I certainly agree with. So my thought is that the next year might be devoted to trying to figure out how we could have a lasting impact and then build on that the next year with specific projects. So my my argument is that everything we do this year should have some salutary effect on our continuing impact on the town. How do we achieve this do you think. Well, let's see, let me think about this so we have the rail trail idea. I'd like to be going to have music and art. Okay, so how do you make that last. Could you get like people to sign up for so we had the mailing list that we could start mailing information to people about art, perhaps. You could do that. Right now we don't have any, we know we can't send out an email to get support about anything because we don't know who's interested in art but if we started getting that information that would be the basis for being more effective because we'd have the email list that we could send out hey there's got concert or have you seen the new sculpture sculpture that went up or etc and here's a here's what we're doing here's a monthly report that kind of thing. Does somebody have a connection that's real friendly and positive with the Amherst Bulletin people who report on the arts. Probably my wife does. I used to but I don't any longer. I bet my wife does because she seems to have that with everybody. Because I think that's one thing that like if it's not as if the Amherst Bulletin isn't looking for news. And if you feed them enough news and on a regular basis they're going to they're going to pay more attention to what you're doing. Then, if they don't have anything at all, you know, right. Go ahead. Well give them a newsworthy event. Yeah, I'm just picking up on what you're saying. Well like how about somebody. How about them reporting on fixing the dialogue. Oh, what a good idea after it's done. It's the story. Yes it is. Did you read the story of the poetic dialogue from like two weeks ago. Oh no. Yeah, we were in. We were quoted from our meeting just like it is right now. Well, it was in the article. Not particularly no, it was in the, what's that one that comes in the, in the mail now, the reminder. Yeah, I don't know what's the name but I know what you mean. Oh yeah I know what you mean. Yeah it was in the reminder a couple weeks ago. Yeah and if we did something like that then we can send out the news really or the article we clip and send it out to our mailing list. Yeah well and and back to the dialogue again because I do have vested interest in it of some kind. I, that was a very positive thing if there were a lot of people that a lot of different kinds of people involved in it, and it wasn't reported. Right.  Okay, what I'm hearing is to achieve our vision that you're suggesting that we need to make sure we have better press relations so we can have better coverage of what we do. Yeah, I wish I knew somebody who, you know, has that beat for the bulletin in particular more than a bigger paper I mean I feel like the embers bulletin is the right place. The paper being what the Hampshire Gazette. Okay. I mean isn't the embers bulletin owned by the Hampshire Gazette and sort of a part of it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so the reminder is separate. Yeah, a reminder is like a ad. Yeah, but Steve for our publishes stuff about art sometimes. I mean he you know when I'm when I publish my book he did a write up on it. So, I mean you can get stuff in the Gazette. Oh, I think that's good but I just think that since it's the embers bulletin. It's nice that that's a focus, you know, I like both. Both are great. I think big. I think that's live to, you know. Yeah, well think big and accept small. That's good. I like to go back to the little spot by beyond the cow. Say, say the name of it again, realignment park. Why is it called realignment. That's such I don't know but maybe a change of name would help to alignment. Big. Right, it sounds like it should be acreage. Yeah, it's not really a park. Yeah, it's a little patch. Oh, I'd love to know the history of it. It's kind of cool sounding you know, I could picture little some kind of wonderful little miniature world going on in there. You know, yeah, I like that because the microcosm idea is kind of nice to think about miniature stuff you know. And I think what we need to do is figure out like five different things. And then implement them. Yeah, that's a good idea. Well and that's probably there's a slight problematic thing about a sculpture there is that there's the cow that's like it's so close it's good. So something that like wouldn't get overshadowed by the cow. I can picture sending out a note to like Amherst area emerging artists. We need a piece proposals for sculpture to fit within a 10 by 10 space that is near a statue of a cow. We don't want it to be overshadowed by the cow. So think bright garish colors. So real specific. It could also be, well maybe not I was going to think if you had a place where you had period, you know they used to have photographs shows that were in the town hall. And so every so often they would change to a different photographer, which I know about because I'm in two photo clubs and you know the clubs were all interested in that. So there was a way to do an outside exhibit where you could protect photographs from the weather. That's another thing for a 10 by 10 square you could have a small photographic exhibit there. That's probably pretty expensive huh to have to something that's weather proof for protecting photographs. I don't know it's almost thinking of a glass case was sealed against the weather with a glass door that opened on a hinge.  Absolutely, because if you evaluate your ideas while you get them you won't get them. I drove up to Middlebury Vermont this week to to for work and a little town called Brandon had every utility pole with a banner on it of a portrait of their high school graduating class. Oh, it was filed. It was like I kept thinking, I wonder how these kids feel about this. Probably love it. Maybe not all of them. And then I was thinking was this one photographer, or was this many photographers, or, and it was kind of a, I was, it was shocking. These high school students. Yeah. It was a high school graduating class. I coach high school students and, and, and I think they probably like that a lot. But I'm sure many of them do. Yeah. Yeah, anyway, I was that was a, I guess that would be called public art. That's public art. I mean, it can be marketed as such and I think it is. I mean, especially if the pictures are taken by non professional photographers. Well, and it's not that certainly not protected from the weather they're just banners on utility polls, you know, like flags. Yeah. I don't know what would happen to them. I think they're not meant to stay up forever because they hit you have a new graduating class every year. That's true. So, or even maybe not beyond the summer I don't know what I don't know anything about what I'm talking about except I drove through this town. Is this Brandon what New Hampshire. Did you say Brandon yeah, it's Vermont. Vermont so we can find out from Brandon Vermont. Well, I'm not proposing that we do that. No, I'm just trying to get a bunch of ideas without evaluating them. Yeah, I think public, one of the things about public art that I love is that it's, it sort of is supposed to be advertising itself by being in a place to be seen. Well, maybe outside of a museum outside, you know, it's not like so controlled. Well, yeah. I think for the first year maybe it needs a little help. Of course. After it gets, you know, after he gets a reputation like this is a spot to go to because it's cool has art there then it gets self. Yeah, sizing but at first it needs to. Yeah, I saw that a great piece of public art advertised in the someplace online. That's the canal district in holy in holy oak. There's a new giant mural of a moose. It's beautiful. And it's so wonderful.  So good giant moose would fit really nice in a 10 foot square area. No, no, I'm not. No, I'm not thinking about that right now. I remember there was an idea that Gabrielle Gould had when she first started being the at the BID, which I thought was a great idea but it wound up getting canceled. But we could resurrect the idea of a community based mural where you hire an artist to like map it out and plan it all out and then it turns into essentially a paint by numbers. And then the community people come in and everybody gets to you know every paint as much or as little as they want. And I participated in something kind of like that down in Springfield over the weekend and it was a lot of fun. It was well attended. And it was really cool. Yeah, see now that gets a whole bunch of people interested and then you grab their contact information when they show up, and you start building a mailing list. And that's my list of things to bring to the brainstorm I think. Yeah, I kind of like that one because of the number of people, you know, the more people you get involved in art the more political support you get. It's a great idea to have people enlisted in finishing the product, you know, that's good. I love it. That's really good. Let's start with a semi modest example of that and then get bigger. You know, yeah. Yeah, because in a way that's like one thing I think about the utility boxes being so good. There's the varieties really great. Yeah, it's kind of surprising. Some of them. You know, some of them are curious and I like that project I thought that I really like it a lot. You know, here's another idea I don't think that it's anywhere it says conspicuously that this was brought to you by the Amherst public art commission. Nope. Well, why don't we change that why don't we get plaques and put up beside these nice pieces of art this this this artwork was brought by artist X was brought to you by the Amherst public art commission just to start building political support. Yeah, definitely do that. Yeah, and I think like when we have events to we should have like those little lawn signs that say Amherst public art commission. And I also think we should get a logo, I think having a logo would help make our identity stronger. So that we're recognizable in town. There's nothing now, right. We talked about it in the past but it's kind of fizzled out. We had some ideas but they were all very weak they're all just kind of like ways of writing Amherst public art commission at different fonts really is what it was but we need something that's actually like a logo. You need it like for the public shade tree committee we've got this thing that's like an arc with like, like it kind of like a block print of tree branches. How many other entities that belong to the town have their own logos. And how can I go to the town website and probably see them all. I don't know that I haven't checked, you know, how many others do I just know because of the Amherst public shade tree committee because I'm on it and that we do have that identity. Public art commissions how about they, they have a logo. Yeah, so we've looked at other public art commissions there are some good ones out there. There are some weak ones too. We need an art commission should have a good art. Yeah, well let's get some samples at the next meeting go through them and let's do this one. Yeah, I think I think we need to rise this back up on to the, the table. Can you put this on the agenda for the, please put it on the agenda for the next meeting. See that's having a signature. Yeah, that's good. And then that goes along with what Jim was talking about about saying always acknowledging that the commission is responsible for this piece of art that you're seeing. Yeah, that's a good thing. They go together. Yeah, we need a logo. Yeah. Okay, then, then I can help you. I can help you trade market. There are plenty of designers in, in this whole area. Yep. But if we get it, we should definitely trade market. That will happen. Yeah, it's not that hard. No. So, do you want to consider putting a call out for area artists and designers to do a pose, you know, or how it worded so that it's not necessarily going to happen but that it might listen. So we have to decide on how much we're going to spend on that and that would be if we can't vote right today. Yeah, okay. How do we do, how do you decide that we'd have to have a vote we have to have a quorum. Is this part of the public art stuff that in a first step would be creating a public identity for the commission so that it can show like have a have a stronger presence in the community. I understand the question. What I'm saying is that before we put the call out we need to know how much we're going to pay for the logo so and we can't decide that until we have a vote on that because that's spending money that would be a serious thing that we really do need to vote on. My question was, is the meeting you're going to at the end of August. Okay. Is any of the money associated with that available for something like this or is this. I don't think so. I think I actually asked that and they said no, but I can ask again. And if I said no, why would be good to know just to know. Yeah, I think it's supposed to be like events specific or something like that but I'll ask again. It's like, I think I remember asking that question because it is like, like the logo idea was my idea a couple years ago, and it's been like something that I think that we've really really needed. Yeah. Okay, when we get samples of these logos from the other public art commissions. Can we find out how much they paid for it. Yeah, just get online and go to little towns that you are interested in and think might have art friendly things going on and start doing that research and you'll find something probably. Yeah, well we need to know how much they paid for it because that's how we know how much we should pay for it. Yeah, that's true. We all look into finding one town that's kind of comparable to Amherst and ask them how much they paid for their logo, how they did it. Okay. Do you want to suggest towns or you want us just to get a try to figure it out we can. Yeah I would say let's just try and figure out because I don't have any on my mind just now that would be comparable. Okay. Let's get in town get their logo and then try to find out how much they paid for it. Right. That's what the. I would say, once you like claim a town. Send an email out so we're not all like doing the same town. And you want them to be Massachusetts towns, maybe Western Massachusetts towns. I don't think it necessarily has to be. Okay, I don't think so. If they have a cool logo.  Yeah. Okay, we're going to have a completely different number. When you send the email identifying the town. Don't discuss what you're doing just send the email saying I pick X. Okay. Because otherwise you violated open mean law. And it's pain in the neck. Oh, the, the N E F A is the group that is sponsoring your meeting that you're going to at the end of the month. Is that right. New England Foundation for the arts. I, I can't remember actually, is that what I sent you. I don't think so. And I think that the, I mean, for us, the part that was interesting is that it says in its add to the public artist in Massachusetts, this means there may be nine calls for temporary public art in the respective communities listed above opening in the latter half of 2022. So Amherst is one of those towns. Right. Yeah. So, I'm, I'm, yeah, it is. Yeah. And so somebody is out there telling people to be looked on the lookout for something that might happen. So that's, I mean, that's exciting. Yeah. Where's the New England Foundation for the arts based Boston, Boston, because whenever people talk about it, they, they say Boston.  All right. All right. And my third idea was sponsoring some, like, there's already salsa dancing in the area, but I was thinking of it would be cool to like, take that successful community and event, and like ground swell up to be even like more successful and successful and bigger. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. There's a, there's a group. They go by salsa contacos, and they've been having some salsa dancing in Kendrick Park, and then they also have salsa dancing at Mexico Lido taco bar. And I'm thinking it would be cool to get that group and get a, like a live salsa band and have like a really, really cool like event celebration salsa in the park dance in the park sort of thing. Because Northampton has had ones like that, and they're very successful. They bring in a lot of people people travel from like an hour away to go to this thing. There's a built in, there's like a built in like user membership I guess you could say or something like the community enjoys this and they're willing to travel for it. And I like the idea of bringing people into Amherst because when they're, you know, when they come into Amherst they realize Amherst is fun they're going to like go out to eat they're going to do stuff they're going to hang out. Oh yeah. Yeah, we would like that. And again that's an opportunity to develop a mailing list. Yeah, true. And it's also a way there's not a whole lot of events in Amherst that celebrate Latino culture. Oh, yeah. I feel like that's a good way to be more inclusive for, I think 7.3 of the population is Hispanic. Yeah. Yeah, so okay so how does that fit into our goal of establishing a program that would promote the arts in the community. And specifically the public art commission's ability to promote the arts. We'd have our identity on that event. Okay, so you're saying it would get us publicity that would provide us some support in the future, probably. Yeah. Well, I think I think we have our logo there right. Well, I think if we do it we should actually concentrate then on making sure that people know that it was sponsored by us because right, because we are kind of like who. Yeah. Because I'm on the public art commission who is right. Yeah, that's why we really need a logo we can have our logo printed on some signs and maybe a banner to place at any, any sort of event that we put our stamp on. Yep. And we could like that will get you an article in Hampshire Gazette probably if you tell them in advance and write it for him. I don't know if they do that I know that when I was with Common Cause we wrote what you know you would write a press release and send it out. And if the newspaper person got it and was they might borrow liberally from the wording which was great and made their life easier so you're more likely to publish it. I don't know if that's the feeling around here or not but I know it happened some in some places. You know, I think press releases are supposed to insinuate what the organization wants to have said about them. Yeah, you write it as if it was a newspaper article so it can get borrowed from. Yeah. Now understand what you're going to do at that meeting Shoshana. Okay. And that's good. And that seems all good stuff. You know, the art trail thing, the frost walk the walk, the art walk trail thing is a great idea. Yeah, and takes a whole lot of planning and work. Yep. Definitely, you know, but maybe it could be done in pieces and then the pieces could be fit together. If ahead of time it was planned by us, really well, only one person would have to do part of it. And another person would do another part of it, you know, but we'd have it, you know, pieces. Yep, could fit together and then it wouldn't seem overwhelming. Yeah. Yeah, like if we had a full membership, you know, because this would be next year this would happen. You know, each member have being charged of hiring a different act to be in a different spot along the trail. That's right. You know, yeah, that each person would be doing separate things and that'd be great. And so long as the whole commission knows what's going on and can speak for the whole commission as being part of it. Yeah, well, we would have our meetings. Yeah.  That would be great to have a logo to put on the front of the. Yes. Programs are really helpful when you're organizing something because it helps you see what you have to do. Sure. You know, so that's helpful. Anyway, well, this is all good. Thank you all so much. I'm going to have to go because I have another meeting. Okay. Is that okay? Is there something I'm going to. We don't have a quorum anyways. I was going to say your absence is not going to break the quorum. Well, I just said, I got, I got to go get ready for this other meeting. All right, well thank you. Thank you too. I'll look forward to our next meeting and see what happens at your meeting. Yeah, we'll have to schedule our next meeting. We'll do that over email. That sounds great. I'm going to say bye bye. Bye. Yeah, I guess the only other thing that I would really like to mention is the town hall gallery. I've taken down Bella Halstead stuff. And put up Rachel, but fluors stuff. Oh, is that on my. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's the list of names that I gave you. Got it. And I actually still have Bella Halstead's art because. When I took it down, it was understood. Like it was the plan earlier that I would just bring it to her apartment at the arbors. So I took it down, I brought it to the arbors and they said she doesn't live there anymore. And so then I called her and it went to her voicemail, but then her voicemail is full. And then. So I couldn't leave a message. So I just waited for her to call. She did eventually call me, but she called me on accident. And she was really, really busy. And I said, I've got your, I've got your stuff. I need to bring it to you. Call me back. And she has not called me back. So I still have her art. Okay, so what's her name again, please. Bella Halstead. Okay, I'll find it. Yeah. Maybe let me see if I can find her address. I'm not saying I can. Okay. But I might be able to. What is she a photo? I'm sorry. I didn't say the exhibit. Is she an artist photographer? What? Um, she's does oil paints. Oh, okay. Oh, cool. And pastels. She also does pastels. Okay. Okay. So I'm saying try to get. Find her address. You know, maybe at the DMV or something like that. She doesn't drive. Don't be there then. Well, have you tried just doing a Google search? I have Googled her for the correct spelling of her name. And it's articles about. Her art. For the past. I'll stand. So I'm getting a Sarah. Here's an article of biography of a. Bella Jane. Oh no. Okay. So that'll be easy. I'll keep working on it. I'm really wanting to get her. Right. Yeah, that's really weird. She doesn't seem to be really in the hurry to get it. Does she? Oh, so she was where. She was at the arbors. Maybe I'll give us a forwarding address. I don't know what to look for and see if they've got a current address. Okay. That would be good. Yeah, if they'll give it to us, it'll be easy. And she's, I guess that's it. Check one more time on our agenda. Social media. Yeah. I've been working on our social media. Putting mostly I've been putting like call for artists or grant opportunities. Okay. So do you have anything else? Nope. All right. I. Call to adjourn. Well, I would move. I would move to do it, but considering there's no corn. Why don't we just agree to buy unanimous consent? We're a journey. How's that? 1258. We're adjourned. By unanimous consent at 1258. Okay. And then we'll do emails to figure out the next meeting. All right. Or you can do doodle. Doodle. Okay. Yeah, you know, that's, it's, it's easy to use. And it works so much easier than 15 rounds of emails. All right. Let's, I'll do doodle. Okay. I've never made one. So here's my chance. Oh, oh, if you have any problem, give me a ring. It's easy. I just did one. Okay. I don't have to put the time in particularly.  So you just put it in all day. Just click the all day thing and tell us it's going to be at noon. Okay. So that saves a lot of work. Yes, it does. All right. Well, hopefully next time I see you that we'll have a whole bunch of faces in the thing and the whole bunch of squares from all the new members we're going to have. That would be great. That would be great. Yep. All right. Bye.


In this module, we shall discuss investments into gold. Gold is a commodity which has fascinated many. Normally in the context of Indo Park subcontinent, people say that women they are fascinated by gold. But I can tell you, it's not only women, a lot of investors, they have been really impressed by the performance of gold as an investment commodity. Impressed by this very good performance of gold over a very long period of time, some fund managers came up with the idea that they should be setting up an Islamic gold fund. They thought that this would be an easy task. It would be just like any other commodity fund. However, gold as a commodity is very sensitive commodity in Islamic law. There are six commodities which are known as ribavi commodities and gold is one of them. So, they are gold, silver, wheat, barley, dates and salt. These six ribavi commodities according to a hadith of Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam can only be exchanged on spot. So, a quantity of gold or gold can only be exchanged on spot. And also in case of gold and silver, whatever are the rules on currency, they become applicable as well. So, for example, gold cannot be bought and sold on a defer payment basis. So, there are some limitations on exchange in gold. So, coming up with an idea to set up an Islamic gold fund posed a lot of problems for that fund manager. And they actually initiated a huge investigation research project to see whether gold can be used as an investment commodity in a Sharia compliant way. I would not go into the details of that exercise. However, I would like to start with an easy point. It is permissible to buy, sell and invest in gold with limitations. Of course, anyone can buy it, we buy gold and we sell gold as well. Investment in gold in the sense that you buy the gold and hold it and wait for appreciation in its value. Now, gold and silver are two things which have been mentioned in the Quran and in the Sunnah, whereby, you know, there are a lot of negative things attached with the with the storing of gold. Because of this connotation, gold is actually quite sensitive. Of course, you can invest in gold, you can buy gold and hold it. Now, when you're holding gold for investment purposes, especially in this particular case, in this commodity case, zakat becomes applicable. Of course, zakat is applicable in case of other business as well. But here, it's a very clear cut case. If you have accumulated 1000 grams of gold, and this is your investment, you have to pay zakat on an annual basis on this one. So, whatever be the return on gold, on an annual basis, you have to give away 2.5 percent of at least the initial purchase price. A lot of people, they would like to take the relaxed view that the zakat is on the amount which you paid. So, I don't want to go into those details. But the point is that you have to actually take away 2.5 percent from the return, which gold as an investment is giving to you. Now, because rules of trading and investing in currencies become applicable in case of gold, the investment in gold becomes actually very restrictive. Especially in case of gold funds. Now, if there is an Islamic gold fund, investors would be investing in. There would be a fund manager who would be managing the money by way of buying and selling gold. So, when someone invests in a fund, they actually buy shares into that. And if those shares are bought and sold in secondary market for a higher price or lower price, that is very, very problematic when the underlying asset is gold. Because this would have implications for ribba or interest. Because of this, although gold as a commodity is very attractive, from investment viewpoint, in a Sharia compliant, it is not as simple as many would have imagined.


Welcome to this course on Transition Metal Organometallics in Catalysis and Biology. In this course, we have been discussing an important topic, which is olefin polymerization, and in this context over the last few lectures, we were particularly focusing our discussion on polyolefin, particularly polyethylene, and various processes that were prevalent in the beginning for preparing various grades of polyolefin, which can be LDPE load density polyethylene, or LLDPE linear load density polyethylene, or HDPE high density polyethylene. In our discussion, we have also looked at several industrial processes starting from that of ICI, or radical based polymerizations, to produce LDPE to heterogeneous transition metal based chromium centric polymerization method developed by Philips, and properly known as Philips process in 1956, to be more precise, for producing HDPE high density polyethylene, and also we have looked at how improvisation of the process by replacing the initial high valent chromium trioxide as the precursor with low valent chromocene by union carbide led to accessing these polymers in a more efficient way. We have also seen how union carbide by control the chain length by varying the introduction of hydrogen gas in the polymerization chamber, thereby carrying out modification of the Philips process for producing HDPE, and successfully use this Philips process to produce LLDPE or linear load density polyethylene. In this context, we have also noted the contribution of union carbide in a process called Unipole process, where they did away with conventional reactor and used fluid based reactor for producing both LLDPE and high density polyethylene. Now, in and around at this time, we have also discussed about the development of signal Nata catalysis or the origin of signal Nata catalysis, and what we have noted that signal Nata catalysis started from an investigation on an aluminum based catalysis that would produce long chain compounds of a chain length of up to C200, and which was commonly called as the off-power reaction. The off-power reaction in short is given by 100 bar pressure produced, and then there is this competing reaction called dehydroalumination that resulted in aluminum hydrate compound plus alpha olefin. Now, it is while observing the production of long chain aliphatic compounds that Ziegler observed an opposite trend, and the opposite trend was that instead of obtaining polymers, what was obtained was two molecules of ethylene gave away to one butene in quantitative yields, and this was a very chance discovery, which showed that something opposite to what was expected was long chain polymers, long chain linear long chain aliphatic compounds. This was what was expected from this reaction, but what was found was one butene, which is just a dimer of ethylene, and this is sort of a dimerization process, and that was sort of a chance discovery, which was later attributed to nickel impurities in the reaction vessel, and this in short is called nickel effect, and this was in short called the nickel effect. Now, this nickel effect is what later on was the origin or source for the discovery of this famous Ziegler-Natta catalyst. So, in search of other transition metals that give premature termination of off bow reaction, this is exactly similar to what was the effect of the nickel effect. Another unexpected observation was made. So, this is kind of very interesting because if you look, so it is sort of like two certain deputies led to one big Nobel Prize winning discovery. The first one itself was the nickel effect, because people were studying off bow reaction, and was trying to figure out ways to increase and make linear long chain polymers. However, they came across this nickel effect, which led to just the dimer. Now, once the nickel effect was found, they were looking for other transition metal that would behave similar to that of nickel effect, and they were looking for other transition metal that would have similar effect like nickel effect on the off bow reaction, and which would also give dimerized or oligomerized product. However, the other expected observation was that during this search for other metal, they found another metal which could even give much larger polyethylene polymer chains, which was again like going back to what they had really wanted in the first place. So, the way we say that two left brings us back to the same position, similarly two errors in the way of process of discovery led to exactly the same thing what they had wanted in the initial stages that wanted to make long chain polymers, and that was indeed the case, but that has to be found by first the nickel effect, and then another unexpected observation that was made, which led to the Ziegelnatter polymerization. So, let us see this unexpected polymer. So, it was found TiCl4 and Et2AlCl gave HDPE high density polyethylene at low pressure of one bar. So, this is indeed a significant discovery, because now unlike in radical polymerization, one could, where very extremely high pressures are needed, pressure of around 2000 PSI were needed to produce polymers, which are not really very long in chain like LDPE, this TiCl4 triethyl ethyl aluminum chloride efficiently gave HDPE high density polyethylene at a very low pressure of one bar. So, this was indeed a radical discovery at that point of time, because now we have a catalyst, which is titanium based catalyst that can polymerize ethylene to give long chain linear polyethylene at very low pressure of one bar, and these are highly crystalline materials without much branching. So, that is the uniqueness about this Ziegelnatter polyethylene discovery, and this is how it came into being. First, the observation of nickel effect by looking at by getting one butene from of power reaction, and then the second thing was they wanted to see what other transition metal can give similar premature termination of above reaction, but instead they ended up finding a transition metal, which could give extremely long chain polyethylene, then even what the above reaction can give. So, with this, let me just give the reaction HDPE Dalton. So, this is about 10000 to 10000 Dalton molecular weight, and this HDPE obtained were almost linear chains with no branching. So, this was a very important discovery at that point, which was made by Ziegler, that now he has found a system, which is titanium tetrachloride with diethyl aluminium chloride at very ambient condition 25 degree centigrade and one bar pressure, and could produce high density polyethylene of very high molecular weight ranging from 10000 to 100000 Dalton, and that produced linear polymer chains with no branching. So, this was indeed a great discovery by Ziegler, and what he found that actually the catalyst is beta surface alkylated beta TiCl3, which is obtained from this. The real catalytic species is beta form of TiCl3, which is surface activated beta TiCl3. Now, this was the catalyst, which was produced, which was producing high density polymer. Now, for this process was initially called as Ziegler, 1955, discovered this polyethylene or HDPE and this molar mass 10 to the power 4 to 10 to the power 5 Dalton, and this process was that time known as Mulheim normal pressure polyethylene process, Mulheim normal pressure polyethylene process. So, what Ziegler found that actually this is surface alkylated beta TiCl3 catalyst was carrying out the process, and they were obtained from TiCl4 and diethyl aluminum chloride, and for obtaining the lower molecular weight hydrogen was added, H2 was added to control the chain length polymer chain length. So, this is similar to what we had observed in case of the philip process as well, where hydrogen was added to control the chain length, and then philip process was used for making LLDPE. Now, what were the advantages? Advantages of Ziegler-Nut polymerization, let me just highlight. The first thing is that it could produce at very low pressure, this is the number one advantage. Second thing is that the temperature is also at room temperature ambient condition. So, this is the second advantage. Third advantage is it was producing high density polyethylene, which is almost linear and without almost no branching, and fourth advantage is the control of polymer chain length by increasing by adding hydrogen in variation. Now, there are also limitations associated with the Ziegler process, limitation says that being heterogeneous, the Ziegler process is a large broad distribution of molecular weight of polymer mass was observed. So, that means a broad distribution, the chain lengths are varied a lot as we have seen from 10 to the 4 to Dalton, and that means that these are multi-site catalysis. So, to overcome this limitation, the efforts were put into develop single-site catalysis to overcome this disadvantage, single-site catalysts were developed.  So, this was the story about the first half of the Ziegler-Natta catalysis. Now, as you can see, the Ziegler-Natta catalysis bears the name of two contributors, one is called Ziegler, and the second is Julio-Natta. The first half of the story is about the ethylene polymerization, which was identified and first developed by Ziegler. So far, we have spoken about the Ziegler portion of the Ziegler-Natta catalysis. Now, we are going to move on to the second half of the Ziegler-Natta catalysis, which is about the Natta portion of the Ziegler-Natta catalysis. Now, in terms of chemical point of view, Ziegler-Natta catalysis uses polymerization of ethylene to give polyethylene, which was Ziegler's contribution, and Natta's contribution had been extending Ziegler's contribution to polypropylene. So, in that way, one can say that the real glory about the discovery of polymerization actually lies with Ziegler, because Ziegler is the one who had first observed the polymerization of ethylene to HDPE under ambient condition and one bar for ethylene. So, extending the same method to propylene would be an obvious extension of the existing knowledge, but the way things spanned out is that Professor Natta came and worked in the lab of Professor Ziegler in one of the summers, and he understood the implication of propylene that might have in the same catalysis, and so he went and extended the polymerization reaction to propylene, and he very well knew that propylene having a methyl group would have a stereoregular properties in the polymer, and that is he developed that aspect. Polyethylene, on the other hand, does not have any stereoisomerism issues or stereoregularity issues, because it is just an ethylene backbone, whereas polypropylene had this stereoregularity of the methyl group, and that is another dimension to the polymer that Professor Natta conceived and that he applied successfully in extending the Ziegler's discovery to propylene substrates. So, today with that we come to the conclusion of this lecture, in which we have looked into the historical perspective of the development of Ziegler-Natta catalysis right from the time of the Philip process, where the process industrial processes were being developed for producing various kinds of polyethylene from LDPE, LLDPE, or HDPE, and then we had also noted that how the discovery of how the study of Abbao reaction to produce long chain polymers led to the observation of simple quantitative dimerization of ethylene, and that was later accounted for the presence of impurity of nickel in the reactor, and that is what was called nickel effect. Subsequent study of the nickel effect for finding another or other transition metal, which would give now the premature termination of Abbao reaction to give one butene, however led to an opposing trend or opposing discovery that in presence of early transition metal like titanium tetrachloride and diethyl aluminum chloride, extremely linear long chain high density polyethylene were obtained at room temperature and one bar pressure. So, this was a great discovery again which was unexpected and that is what led to polyethylene polymerization. So, this is the story which was developed by Professor Karl Ziegler and the limitation about the advantage of the Ziegler-Natta polymerization or Ziegler polymerization is that this produces HDPE high density polyethylene at room temperature one bar pressure, and also the chain length can be controlled by metered addition of hydrogen, and the limitation what it had is that it has large distribution of polymer molar mass, the huge distribution of the molecular weight, and that suggested that this is a multi site catalysis, and hence to improve on that the focus changed to synthesizing single site catalysts for making more well behaved polymer with narrow polydispersity index. So, with this we come to end of the Ziegler story of the Ziegler-Natta polymerization, and we are going to be taking up Natta's story the next as a part of the Ziegler-Natta polymerization, and we would see how Professor Julia Natta translated the knowledge developed by Professor Ziegler for polymerizing polyethylene, and used the same on propylene to produce polypropylene, and how that was developed in subsequent ways. So, with that I again thank you for being with me in this class, and we are going to be discussing more about this exciting story of Ziegler-Natta catalysis as we meet next in the next lecture. Till then, goodbye and thank you.


Well, as soon as I get let's start here is anybody coming back that you anticipate off of I our nobody practicing Isaiah still practicing we haven't bought back, but he started practicing last week, and he'll be out there again today I mean I think once we I mean I thought he looked pretty good, but so as we goes But obviously where the plan was I mean we didn't he wasn't going to be part of the 48, so we Didn't take them off Kyle do you anticipate him back today? Oh, yeah We'll see how it goes all week with him This was looking back at the untimely penalties was there any common thread there or Yeah Yeah, I'm always on 49ers, you know, like every game D led there's a lot of things to coach off of things that we can do better But our focus now is on the San Francisco 49ers Concerned moving forward in that penalty area Do you let again? We'll focus on 49ers as we do every Monday I Said a hundred times and I'll say it again when we always look to improve, but we're focused on the San Francisco 49ers Yeah, I mean they they do a great job of getting people off track they play it's a very physical front they do a great job of Blowing up double teams blowing up edges I think they you know, we talk about a lot of there's a lot of things. There's a lot of people in this game that Get attention. There's a lot of coaches. Obviously. I've got a soft spot for the lines of scrimmage But I think they got one of the best D line coaches and football and Chris Kasaric And I think if you go back and you look at what Access that he's had since he's been in San Fran Been pretty damn good. And so joy watching the way those guys play. We know we got our work cut off for us Well, we're excited about the challenge Yeah, there's a lot of ways that people get you get off track You know and if a lot of it is some of the strategy and Okay, if you get a if you get a run in this two yards You know, you know get into an obvious past situation And those are the games within the games because you're playing a front like this and you make it really easy on them And they're not they're only thinking about one thing. It's a nightmare So that's certainly that's a credit to those guys and it's just sometimes that happens in the flow of the game And then the other ones are the negative plays whether they're the penalties poor execution tackle for losses sacks and then you're getting in too many third and 11 plus and More times and not the odds are against you and when you're doing it on a really good front like this That's when they get you in a bind and that's what they've done most of the season to a lot of offense He talked about when he was here about how you try to get the defensive linemen running sideways Outside the numbers and so forth and attacking defenses that way Zeta, you know, they're still doing that. Is that part of I? Mean I think that's pretty common. He led, you know, everybody's got the different cliches He's like make them defend every blade of grass or you know what all those stuff What they do a good job of and I think Kyle does a really good job of is that he's evolved I think a lot of conventional wisdom is things that you're gonna turn it on it's gonna look like You know Clint Portis and Terrell Davis and the Alex Gibbs and Gary Kuback and Mike Shanahan stuff Like any good coach which he is Like a lot of guys they evolve they run some really good cap schemes They run a lot of good gun runs. They do a really good job with their motion And they got some really good players So like every good coach they evolve if you think that you're looking at the 1999 Denver playbook that Frank Bush has for us. That's not what this is and that's a credit to Kyle and He's a really good coach, but they run multiple schemes We got to make sure we you know, they got debossed annual towards Kittle I hook I mean they got good really good players and juice check. I mean they it's a it's a good challenge So there's a reason they've been in the Super Bowl and they went to the NFC Championship game Could you discuss the use of depot how they try to deploy him? Yeah, I mean just got to get the ball in his hands in multiple different ways. That's all I said He's a very good run after catch. Yeah, I'll give him the highest compliment I can give and they may not mean much to love. He's a total football player complete football player put it that way Other than probably playing left tackle, I think he could play most positions on the field on offense or defense Maybe not three technique or nose, but I'm sure he probably tried I only know him that well But the way watching the tape probably would give it a go We'll have these conversations and I prefer to talk about 49ers if you're whatever story Whatever narrative you're trying to investigate or write about I'm happy to help you But I prefer to stay on track with the same six to 49ers and the line of Falcons our football team in this game The both thing last year where they were saying that it basically turned into a 31 With a lot of power and that's where they were getting the mismatches and stuff Is that just speaks to this versatility with how they try to attack people? Depends on what scheme they're trying to attack and what teams are trying to do to them I mean I said they they can give you multiple looks. I think they're pretty good at the gap schemes They can motion in the backfield. They can line them up back there. They can hand the ball to him on Again multiple schemes whether their gun runs toss it to him You know the to me the most comical completion of football is that little lob pass on the jet suite motion I mean he can do it all whether that counts for a pass or not. That's a debate Josh for another day, too I don't think Marino and Elway got the same little stat bat and credit for it But it is what it is all over college football and people using the NFL But just a terrific football player. He led good route tree, too I know is how to get open hard to press I could go on and on and on Your decision process in terms of decided challenge player In terms of what in terms of like the how that goes from after a place over A question of a play that was challenge or not You're like a Josh approach right right in the story about challenges we can we can set up time and talk about that and not her fact But in terms of what? The quickness of it like how that goes like do you have somebody in your ear saying hey look at this? Do you because I was your calling place, too, especially on offense I'm just wondering how that goes how that works for you specifically and I like like when the led ask about scheme or Rotations we keep that stuff in house a lot of different processes. I've been a part of but again If you tell me what relevant that is to this game I'm happy to answer Yeah, he's having a terrific season I Know it's one of those guys that longer. I've been around him the more Fortunate I feel I am to be able to coach a guy like Grady He's rare. It's anything Davo told me when I talked to him and I got this job So if you're gonna start a program, that's the guy you started with and a lot of people say a lot of things and Fluff things up, but that's a very true statement. I think it's impressive God doesn't gets a new contract And I don't know if there's anybody working or playing harder than he is he plays multiple spots for us One of the best leaders I've ever been around He's having a terrific season and you can play in multiple spots and Understands how to set people up past rush Those how to take his chances in the run game Playing really really good football force right now Yeah, he's having a really good year Scott I Jimmy G playing for them after James won a lot of football games, and I've never worked with them I got a ton of respect for him. There's no flinching them in the pocket Guy finds a way to win a lot of football games So a ton of respect for him. I just didn't get rid of the ball quick get a quick delivery tougher than hell And it's won a lot of games When it comes to running back check to check down a running backs in the passing plays How does that work for Marcus? Is that available to him on every play is there? He's not playing football like I mean Jesus Christ like come on like I give you a high school playbook Like depends. What's the scheme that they bury the back in there? What covers are they playing like what's the protection like? Not that I'm not trying to be patronizing, but that's such a generic question Look if you're playing zone and drop four-man pass rush and you're in soft zone Usually the check downs are there. That's in any offense. We can go to flower branch high school They can probably do that.  I Don't know an offense literally probably in high school. Maybe there are there Maybe this is it, you know there shouldn't say that with like I'd say 90% of offenses from Peewee football or D-Lite can tell you about what's your team name? Just murder Spartans. They probably have some kind of flare controller check down