Okay, it's five minutes after seven. I'm going to call the meeting to order. Let's see who's here. Members of the board, starting with you, Polly. I'm here, Polly McMurtry. Bob Wernick, Chair. John. He's here. Yeah, he's here. George, Tuan Nelson, you're here. Carla Nuisel is here. Now I'm going to be here. Who do we have on the phone? There's Jeff Olesky, the applicant. There is the Orca media that is, I believe, also recording this tonight. We have Michelle and Adam Lambert. We have John Connor. And we have Cindy and Mike Noyes. And we have Christy Flynn. And with the exception of Christy, all have been sworn in. And the members of board, obviously. Would like, so let's hear from the applicant. Do we have any questions here about how we're proceeding? We're going to proceed with the applicant immediately. Jeff, please. Yeah, so thanks again, everybody, meeting tonight. As outlined in our correspondence with Tom previously, and I think they went out with the agenda, we would like to respectfully request the continuance to the first meeting in August. We are certainly making some headway. We've met with several agencies at ANR. And I think we've made some progress with regards to what the requirements are going to be on that end of the project. VHB has been engaged to perform a, again, I'm not going to call it a traffic impact study, but they're certainly doing a traffic analysis and will be providing a pretty thorough report. And based on everything that we've put together and working with the development team, we anticipate submitting a fully complete final package for resubmission to the town a week from yesterday. Yeah, sorry, a week from yesterday. So July 13th, which I believe is sufficient time for conversations with Tom to proceed with that first meeting in August, which would be a final site plan application. So you're requesting a recess until August 4th? Yes, please. Would you understand that we'll be getting the, all the material that you're talking about by the 13th? 13th? Yes, that is our intention. Yep, really, we have the majority of it together, but we are still unfortunately waiting on a traffic study, given the amount of information that VHB had to collect and digest and kind of evaluate, they just need this last week here to kind of piece that all together. So I think it was, again, our conversations with Tom, it just made sense to give ourselves those extra couple of weeks and make sure that town staff, as well as the board members had time to thoroughly review the revised and expanded information that we'll be providing next Monday. Tom, any comments? No, I would just, Jeff, I would request as you did in the past to mail the documents directly to myself and to the board members and make available PDFs that can be shared with the neighbors. Yeah, absolutely, Tom, and along those lines, so what we will do is we'll submit hard copies and then if it's sufficient, would you like a reduced size, so 11 by 17, or a full size, 36 by 24 copies of the plan submitted mail to the board members? I think we just did the reduced on the last go around, but we're happy to do whatever the preference is of the board. I would prefer reduced. That was Paul McMurtry, that was Paul McMurtry, but request a reduced. Robert Wernick would like a reduced. Me too, Carla. Carla Noizo would like a reduced. Me too. John, yeah. Both Tor Nelson and John Friedrich would also like a reduced. I would like a full set, please. Absolutely, and we'll obviously be submitting, we'll probably do, we did the last time around is instead of sending the full package that includes the details and extraneous information, we'll try to just limit the package that goes out to the board members to kind of the critical, the proposed site plans, utilities, grading, landscaping, lighting, things of that nature. And then obviously supply a full set of PDFs digitally to you, Tom, for not only distribution internally, but if certainly if any abutting property owners want to email to them, just let me know and I'll forward those along as necessary. I would suggest that I just recently sent you a message yesterday confirming this meeting and there was of the neighbors were copied on that. So you have their email addresses if you could just forward to them directly and I will follow up with them to make sure that they got them. Sure, yeah. If that's the complete distribution list and when we submit on Monday with the final package, I will distribute that digitally to everybody on that email list. Thank you. Members of the board, any questions or comments with regard to this request? No. Ifs and parties, any questions or concerns with regard to this request? I have no questions. That was, no questions. John Connor was the first one. Hearing no questions or concerns by ifs and parties or the board members, I entertain a motion to continue this to August 4th. So moved. That was, that was, that was, Carla moved and Polly seconded. Polly seconded. All those in favor of that motion, please signify by saying aye by giving your name. Aye, Polly McMurtry. Aye, Carla Nuiso. Aye, Bob Wernick. Aye, Torna Wilson. Aye, John Friedrich. Thank you. We are recessed to August 4th on this matter. I thank you all for taking the patience to come in tonight. I do have a couple of items of business I'd like to take care of. We have some minutes that Blake to just go over so that Kristy can move ahead with previous applications. Jeff Olasky here. I'm just going to respectfully bow out and just finish by saying I appreciate everybody working with us on this timeline and accepting their continuance to certainly help us provide a complete application. So we look forward to talking to you all again in about a month. Thank you, Jeff. Okay, have a good night. Thank you. Yeah, bye. Bye. Okay, we have three sets of minutes. Three sets? Yeah, three sets. The easy ones are the minutes of June 8th. Oh, yeah. Right. That was one. I never saw it. Where are we based? Did we get set of courses? Went into a little recession. So, but let me start with the minutes of June 2nd. I submitted comments to those minutes as did Polly. Kristy went ahead and revised those minutes to reflect my comments and Polly's, I believe. I did a couple of things, one thing that I didn't see in it, but maybe it was in there. And that's, I suggested that because we had, it was mentioned that the, and we talked about the trees being taken down between, you know, Route 62 and the park and ride. And I didn't see that put in the minutes, but maybe they were, maybe I know. No, it was, there was not Polly. So did you want that entered? I did, I want it documented because it was mentioned, it was discussed, it was mentioned. Okay. That would be in the same paragraph where the trees are being removed, trees are being added. Right. You want to point out that the trees between the park and ride and 62 are being removed. Right. Okay. I don't know if Kristy's on board right now or still in the other meeting, but you'll get this. So are the, do the revised minutes actually say June 4th instead of June 2nd? They're two sets. This is the ones that are six pages. It says June 4th on it, the ones that were sent 7-1. I think that's supposed to be June 2nd. The minutes say June 2nd. Even the ones that came 7-1?  I'm looking at the ones that came on 6-18, June 18th. Okay. Well, you said, so I just assumed that the ones she just sent were the revised ones. That's right. She sent the revised ones of the June 2nd minutes. What date? I don't know. The date is June 2nd. No, what date did she send them? The 18th. Oh, okay. Well, what came on June 1st? July 1st. July 1st? I don't know. Those are the minutes of June 4th. No, they're not, because they have testimony in them. Yeah, June 4th had testimony. I thought June 4th was a deliberative session. No. June 8th was a deliberative session. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I looked at the wrong beats then. Sorry. So then I had only one more. And it's just a minor thing. It's maple wood, not maple woods. It's singular. Well, I didn't catch that one. Well, I live next door to it. I, you know, I shouldn't know it. Very good. Okay, not to beat a dead horse, but June 2nd is a Tuesday. June 4th is a Thursday. That's correct. Correct. Oh, we had the meeting on Thursday that week. Oh, God, I'm sorry. God, I'm losing my mind. Well, it was a while ago. So, other than that, I'm satisfied with the change. So Tom, I'm dying to know what's so funny. Yeah. He laughed at me. I remember last week, much less four weeks ago. Okay. So are you clear, Carla? Yeah, Claire is mine. We're talking about the, we're talking about the minutes of the June 2nd. I know, I know. I'm just kidding. Okay. And, and, and Kristi did revise them. And what we're going to do is ask this. She also revised it one more time to include a mention of the meeting, the trees being removed, all those trees on between 62 and, and the parking right being removed. And so then really we're not, we're not coming ahead with trees. We're, we're about staying net. And what was the other item, Polly? It was just taking the S off of maple wood. Oh yeah. Maple wood. Just a little typo. Excuse me, Bob, but Polly, if you could send me those two quick changes, I will make those tonight and, and I'll just get sent them to Kristi. So she doesn't need to worry about it. Okay. So, do I have a motion to approve the minutes as edited? So moved. This is solid moving. Second, John. Second, John, thank you. All those in favor of that motion. Do we have discussion motion. All those in favor of that motion, please. If I say aye. Aye. Aye. Carla. Bob. Aye. Polly. Aye. Or I assume. Did I miss John? No, I said I. Okay. I did miss you. Okay. Very good. Then we have the minutes of June 4th. Which was a. Convene meeting. Of the third item on our agenda. Which was the. Mazda BW dealership. And I have not submitted any comments. One has Polly. We both reviewed it. I submitted only one comment. And that was, it was just a correction that it was the RPC to do the traffic counts, not the PC. Okay. Tell you what, I think.  I have, I have a few additional comments. I have one about as stellar as the one you have references made to standards. A 76. And V. Has been Victor. 71. It's actually B Bravo. 71. And. In the beginning of the very first paragraph. Mention is made that the. All properties are in a commercial district. And that is not correct. Two of the properties are one properties in the. Residential district. And the other property, a portion of it. The property on Marvin road, a portion of that isn't a residential. And all of the one on. Good now road is on residential. So it's just, it's, it's not all or commercial. On page. That's on page one. On page three. Is where that. B 71 versus C 71 is. And it should point out the, the accesses. That do not meet a 76 and B. And B 71. Are on Marvin road. I think it needs. Of course, there are a number of accesses involved. And so I think the reference there is to the two accesses on Marvin road. Do not meet 76. And. 71. Also the intersection of the. Against. Same page, same page three. Says the intersection we moved south. That's the intersection of Marvin road with. Two. It's actually technically be moved east, not south. So. And the last comment I have is. On page five. On the natural resources protection section. And it says that the. Applicant will make sure that the existing septic is not located within the weather's buffer. And. And what the average said is they tend to remove. Existing septic system and the mound from the buffer. So. So. Those are my edits. Those minutes. I can send them and writing to everybody if they'd like me to. That might be. Part of the Christie ball. Well, I'll send everybody. Yeah, I think I know most of them except the first one on the first page and one about commercial and residential. Okay. I missed where you want to make a change, but I think I got all the others. That's right in the first paragraph of new business. Okay. All properties are in the commercial district. Right. Is that you Christie talking. Yeah. Okay. My other medium was very quick. Yes. It's it's it's in the end of the very first paragraph that says it's in the commercial district. And in reality is. And that's what the applicant said, but that's the reality is not, not all of them are. A portion of the property on. 12 Marvin road is not. And then. And then the, all of the property on. Good now road is not. Residential. Pardon. RL 40. Okay. Okay. If those are acceptable, I'll set them out for everybody. So you can see what I said, but. There's a great question. About it. I mean, some of them is just pretty minor. And probably you noted what. I just noted that she said that the traffic counts would be the, the PC. Oh yeah. RPC. It's the RPC. It's the RPC. The RPC. Yeah, I would. I'd say that. It was Carla wants to go out there. I'll be very good. They were very responsible. These are playing. Very responsible. They had counters out there. Almost immediately. Right. And they've sent the results. Would everybody like to see the results? I have a copy of them. Sure. I'll forward them. I haven't even looked at them. We're going to get a lot more testimony from this applicant. So I was not. Spend a lot of time on this. I assume you sent them to the applicant, right? They were sent to the applicants. So maybe they'll include them. Traffic consultant. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So. The data itself is just raw data, you know, so many trucks, so many cars. Right. Well, I'll just wait. You know, I can wait for the applicants. Information. Yeah, I think it'd be more meaningful. Yeah. I've analyzed it before, so I sort of know it. Um, So do I have a motion to approve the minutes as, as amended. Or June 4th. So moved. This is Pauling. I was seconded just because I made all the edits. Um, a discussion of the motion. All those in favor of that motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye, Carla. Aye. Aye, John. Aye. Tour. Okay. And then the last set of minutes are. The minutes of the eighth. And that was a meeting that we held for the strict purpose of going to a delivery session on. Two of the applications. And Christie has pretty straightforward. We called me to order and we immediately went into a little recession. So. I would make a motion to approve those minutes as prepared. I'll second. Bolly. Discussion. Questions. Carly wondering what day that was. I think it was June 10. Hearing no discussion. Also favor that motion, please. Whoever's saying aye. Hi, Carla. Hi, Polly. Hi, Robert. Hi, John. This is tour. I won't stain since I was absent from that meeting. Okay. Thank you. You don't need to abstain, but you know that already. We have a foreign favor. Motion carries. Thank you. And I have no. Other business before us. Tom, did you have anything else? I missed. Tom. You're muted. No, I do not. Thank you. Well, thank you all for joining us tonight. And. All this fourth. As you know, I will not be present. For the meeting of the 21st. I'm having my knee replaced on 21st. Oh my gosh. And I should be. I should be okay. By the August 4th. Bending your knee constantly. Keeping it supple. Did you, uh, did you use that passive motion machine? Yes. Where are you getting yours done? Copley. Yeah. They use the machine. My husband had it done at Central Vermont and his doctor didn't believe in it. And we both recovered. So. But yeah, no, I use a machine. It was kind of boring. All right. Well, thank you everyone. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The meeting is adjourned. Oh, I need a motion to join. I'm sorry. Apologies. I'll second. Second by Polly. Scussion. There's no discussion. Motion. All those in favor of the motion. Say hi. Hi. Hi, John. Hi. Thank you all. Good night. Thank you. Good night.


As part of our series of self-defense in different settings and an effort to develop environmental awareness, today we're going to talk about one setting that is often the host of confrontation. A bar, club, or any establishment whose primary purpose is the sale of alcohol. Now the purpose of this episode is not a criticism or lecture on these places, but rather the goal to help prompt people on being aware of what's going on around them and if there is an issue, what obstacles and advantages are in play. So let's explore self-defense in a bar. Now before we start, I want to make it very clear on what this episode is not going to be. This is not going to be a how to video on fighting techniques in a bar or a collection of bar fight footage. When we did the episode on self-defense in the parking lot a while back, it received mostly great feedback, but I did get a stream of some viewers who asked why I didn't show street fights or how come I didn't fight somebody in the parking lot and just film that. Well, the reason is that was completely against the objective of the video. The objective is to learn how to analyze the surroundings, take possible dangers into account and how to proceed safely. This is not a collection of security camera or fighting footage, but rather a discussion on environmental awareness so you don't get caught in the fight. I don't care how good you are, there may be somebody better, and if a fight does break out, someone is going to get hurt either yourself or if you are good, you can seriously destroy another human being. Neither outcome is ideal, so this video is my best advice on how to avoid confrontations in these environments or how to take your surroundings into account if you find yourself caught in one. So okay, that's enough of my soapbox rant, let's get to it. The first thing I like to do, and I've said this in a few videos, whenever I go to some place new, whether indoor, outdoor, or a new venue, is I try to take account of the surroundings. I do initial observations and that includes the size of the place. Now, if we're going to a bar or a club, how big is this place? Is there a dance floor? Are there tables, chairs, narrow hallways, where are the exits? Is it full of people? Check the crowd size. And speaking of the crowd, what's the vibe, what's the energy of the room? Is it more of a club concert where people are more amped up, or is it more subdued like a quiet bar? Also take into account what security measures are in place. Are there cameras, or are the cameras? Are there security guards, are there cops outside?  Also one of my favorite things is, and this is just my personal pet peeve or not pet peeve, this is my personal thing that I do a lot, is whenever I go somewhere new, I check the traction on the floor. I like to make sure is it slippery, is it gravelly, am I going to get caught? Am I going to be able to move? Am I going to be able to run? Just something to keep in the back of the mind so that you know what surface you are working with. Also furniture and bars. You've got tables and chairs, bar stools. Also any obstacle layout. Is it one big open room? Or are there half-walls, are there booths? Is the bar, you know, just a straight line or does it go around? Just take account the size, layout and energy of the place that you're going into, especially the first time you're there. Also how is the visibility? You know, a lot of clubs have low lights, concert halls, bars. They will have low lights. Some of them are still smoky. So other places might have strobe lights, laser lights, whatever. So anything that might obstruct your vision, just keep that in mind. Be aware of it. Keep an eye on strange behavior. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying go out there and profile people and spend your whole night watching this person, watching that person. You're there to have fun, relax. But if you notice somebody acting strange, maybe someone who appears to be intoxicated or somebody who seems confrontational or someone who might not be quite right or if you're not comfortable with the way a person's behaving, just keep an eye on them. Just avoid them if you can. Also, sometimes if you do find a person that is acting suspicious and not to label anybody but say there is a drunk person at the bar and he's causing trouble, don't assume he's alone. This actually happened with my wife one night. She was out with one of her friends and her friend had a little bit too much to drink against warnings. And she actually kind of passed out at the table. I got the phone call. I was on my way to pick them up. But during this time, there was a drunk guy who was going around bar table to bar table and just kind of harassing people. He was trying to be friendly, but he wouldn't leave people alone. And I could hear him on the phone. He was coming up to my wife several times. And she said, no, we're good. He's like, we can take you home. We're good. The bottom line though is he was not alone. There was a whole group of table of friends he was with who were doing nothing to curb his behavior. They were actually more laughing at him, but never assume a person is by themselves. So even if one person's going around the room, just be aware they might not be alone. And if something happens with this person, you do not know how they're going to react. Are they going to come and rescue their friend? Are they going to join him? Are they going to defend him? Are they going to try to restrain him? You never know. If there is a person that is making you uncomfortable or you feel there might really be something wrong with them, if you feel unsafe, just alert a security guard or a bouncer just to say, hey, look, so-and-so is acting kind of funny. Just keep an eye on them. All right, so let's take it one notch up. Say now a threat is starting to appear. You've noticed somebody who's acting suspicious or made you uncomfortable and you've tried to avoid them. And for whatever reason, things are starting to heat up. Somebody is trying to start something with you. So first thing is you have to determine is this person actually being a threat or are they just annoying you? I've had people in the bar who wouldn't leave me alone, but they're just talking. They're just chatting. They're drunk or they're lonely. They're not threatening, but you could tell that things went a couple levels up. If they got agitated, they could become a threat. So first you have to determine are you in danger, is this person a threat? Because people can be drunk. They can be high. They might be sober. You don't know a person's state. You don't know their background. There's people sometimes around medication that make them appear to be one way when they're actually not.  Are you with people that you care about? Keep that in mind. Of a fight where they break out, they could be at risk. You know nothing about this person. You have no idea how good they are. You have no idea if they have new weapons. You have no idea how aggressive they can be or if they're alone. So if you are with family and friends and people you care about, you might wanna take some extra precautions and just try to diffuse or avoid a situation if possible. And sometimes it's a matter of just cooperating with them and listening to this person. And again, I kinda wanna point to another example. One time last year my wife and I were out and it was a good, it was a party at a bar. A friend was having a birthday. There was one fellow there who was getting drunker and drunker and drunker and he was the life of the party. He was buying people drinks. He was being friendly. He was chatting up. As the night went on, he started getting a little bit aggressive. Not physically, but more verbally. He was getting upset quicker and he was a big fellow.  But the thing that was, you can't assume that he was dangerous or that he was trying to start a fight. We actually found out that he had a family member who was unfortunately murdered the previous year and there was information about the case, whatever it was going on. He was having a really, really bad day. He was not trying to start any trouble. He really wasn't a threat to people. He was just upset. He was loud. So again, you don't know the state of a person. In cases like that, sometimes it pays off just to cooperate.  You're right. Oh no, yeah, no problem sir, whatever. Listen to them. Sometimes that's all they want and sometimes that's enough to get them to cool down or come down another level. It might be an annoyance and it might be an inconvenience, but if you can spend five minutes to pacify them and avoid a fight, it's kind of worth it and you can go about your life. So basically my point though is there's so many variables. There's no definite. You don't know a person. So just try to look for ways to defuse a fight. You don't want a fight to happen if it doesn't have to. Okay, so say it finally happens. You've done the best that you can that you have tried to defuse a situation, you've tried to avoid it, but now you're actually in a confrontation with a person. Now you have to decide how are you going to respond? How much of a threat is this person? Are you talking about somebody who's, is this a drunk friend? Or just a guy who's just having a bad day and drunk and he's just kind of getting shovy. Maybe you're gonna restrain him. Maybe a couple of takedowns you can hold in place. Or somebody where you really have to hurt. You have to strike them. It's like they're a real danger to you. Or is this a situation where deadly force is needed? There are big, big differences in these scenarios.   You're gonna wanna restrain him. A stranger you don't know. At the heat of the moment, you have to decide what level of response is appropriate for this situation. And if you find that you have to respond, strategically place yourself in the room. Again, hopefully you've looked at the layout and the room and the furniture and the exits. So try to position yourself in areas where you can escape easily if you have to. You can work your way towards doors. Walls you might be able to use, you know, to cover your back if there's multiple people, but you don't wanna get caught in a corner either. Bar soles, are they fixed or are they freestanding? If you're sitting in a bar stool that is freestanding and somebody shoves you, that won't take much for that bar stool to tip over. So if you don't get to your feet quickly, you can find yourself on your back and in trouble real quick. If it's a fixed bar stool, you can either brace against it or launch off of it. Or if you see that something is kind of heating up, you can kind of get to the edge of your seat and get your feet in the floor in position where you can stand quickly if you have to. The bar itself. The bar itself is a hard fixed structure. It can be used to your advantage. It can also be used up against you. You don't wanna be pushed up and have your back and spine rammed up against that bar, possibly even bent over it, but at the same time, too, you can use that to the other person. It is part of the room. It is fair game to be used. Possible weapons. Objects. You are in a venue that's got glass, plateware, silverware, chairs. These are all very big thrusters. Nothing's stopping anybody from grabbing. You all see in the movie, grabbing a glass bottle, breaking it using his knife or silverware. I mean, there might be actual knives on the table. The floor, going back to the traction. You know, the floor, it's a bar. It might be sticky, it might be totally fine, but if something starts to break out, there could very easily be something spilled on the floor. Now it might be slippery, it might be sticky. There might be broken glass. I'm sorry, presenting to just you guys out there. You don't wanna go to the floor in this setting if you do not have to. This is not the prime grappling arena, especially with broken glass on the floor, especially with a crowd of people who can kick you. You don't know who's with who. So just try to avoid going to the floor if you have to, stay on your feet. This is not an environment that you wanna be on the floor for very long, if at all. And you know, I mentioned this before too about the crowd and this is why I mentioned about the energy of the crowd, read the vibe, because there's a good chance depending on the setting that you're in, other people might join in, even if they're not related to the initial confrontation. If you're at a concert with young teenagers, there's probably a more likelihood that people are gonna jump in and get excited and the adrenaline's gonna rush and more people will get involved versus maybe you're out and maybe it's more of an older crowd and somebody's starting trouble, there's less likely of other people from jumping in. And also if people do jump in, you have no idea what side they're gonna take. Are they going to attack you? Are they gonna defend you? Are they gonna attack the other side? You have, or they just, this is gonna be a big free for all. I mentioned this in the previous video about environmental awareness. We actually did this drill with kids.  We call it the restaurant game. I said the kick master pads, we put up the gym mats, we make walls, we bring out the kicking shields, we make tables, and we kind of build a cafeteria for them. And they're all in their gear. And what I do is I'll send one kid out of the room and I'll choose three attackers or four attackers or two attackers. They never know the number. I'll pick a couple people who's gonna be the attackers. And then I call the other person back in. And the whole point of the game is they kind of mingle around until I say the word go and the attackers are going to go after the main person. And they don't know if they're gonna be attacked by one, two, three, or four people because it's up to them if they wanna attack at once or one at a time or two at a time. And the goal is for them to defend themselves and not stand there and fight and try to take them on but to get out of there. The whole goal is to get around the obstacles, use the obstacles, and get out of the bar. Get out of the restaurant to one of us or the security guards so they can learn to defend themselves and escape.  So when so-and-so comes out, you attack them. Once it starts going, by the end of it, there's usually four or five people fighting them. And it's like, well, I didn't call you but it's part of the example to show that, look, just because they weren't with this group doesn't mean they won't get involved. And I actually had one boy try to defend one girl and she hit him because she didn't know and he's like, Mr. Dan, she hit me, I was just trying to protect her. And I said, but you don't know that, she doesn't know that. So again, that is a big question mark variable. Other people getting involved and you have no idea what role they're gonna take. So you got to be careful and be very aware of that. Is there a pool table? You know, a lot of bars have pool tables. This opens up a lot of possibilities. I mean, you've got pool six, they can be weapons. Table itself is a very heavy fixed object to have to work around. You've got the billiard balls, they can be weapons, you can strike with them, they can be thrown. This is very different than say an open dance floor which has a totally different dynamic or a set of tables. So it's again, something to be aware of the fact of a pool table being in the environment does change the dynamic. Now, a lot of things you see in movies, I've fortunately not been in the bar front myself. I try to avoid those situations. But who has not seen the movie where, you know, a fight breaks out in the bar and they make it look like this big, exciting brawl. You know, if someone's chasing each other around the pool tables and one guy grabs the light and pushes it and swings into the other person or, you know, beer bottles broken over the head and people would just kind of brush it off. In reality, that's just movie glamour.  It's not like the sugar glass they use in movies. It is a hard object, is a blunt object, especially if the beer bottle is full and you are struck with it. If that bottle breaks, that means you were hit with a lot of force. You're getting cut, you're getting a concussion if you're not, if you're even still conscious. Getting struck with an object like that is not like the movies.  It's incredibly dangerous. So as you also see pool cues and chairs broken over people's back and they're like, oh, distracted.  That person's getting hurt or you're getting hurt. Don't believe the movies. Bar fights and movies are meant for entertainment and fun. That's not how they are in real life. People get hurt for real.  But don't think of, okay, I'll beat this guy up. Everything's done, everything's good, I can go home. Just be aware that whatever happens, there are consequences. There could be possible charges filed. Depends on how the situation started. Again, make sure you look defensive at the beginning because there's now liability in the play. The other party can claim that you started it. So if there are cameras or if there are witnesses, make sure they saw you trying to say, hey man, I don't want any trouble. Show that you were defensive ahead of time. So just to wrap this all up, this is not to make you paranoid. It's not saying, hey, you have to be on Robocop mode the whole night. Have fun, be relaxed, enjoy the company you're with but be smart about it. Be alert and just be responsible. That's all and just know what you're working with. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you have any other environments you suggest or would like to explore or if you have any experience in this, please share it below because this is where we can discuss this. This is where we can share our ideas and be all smarter and safer together. And so thank you very much. Please be sure to subscribe. Click on that bell icon for more notifications and we'll see you in the next video. Thank you.


With the Eleventh Amendment, we start the realm of political actions. Consider in reading these that the purpose of the Constitution was set in the preamble and will not change until that preamble is changed or replaced. The purpose was, and continues to be, to ordain and establish a government for a self-governing people. The purpose of the Eleventh Amendment is to honor the legal sovereignty of these states when it is convenient. Under the amendment, the states can refuse to be sued in federal courts by either foreigners or sovereign citizens in other states. To set the understanding into context, the states as signatories were representative of the people in a region of the United States. The originating language that allowed this type of legal action addressed the Supreme Court, not the federal courts. This provision also puts a muzzle on Congress that it cannot ordain and establish inferior courts that are empowered to hear such suits. Simply, the state representatives did not want to be sued by citizens of another state or by foreigners. They used the amendment process to slam the door on even hearing such suits. There was no problem as to foreigners, but cutting off the sovereign U.S. citizens from the federal courts is no support to we the people, nor in any way promotes unity or justice or any other of the stated purposes of we the people. Our Twelfth Amendment was the result of experimenting with the process of election. It was a second attempt to provide a process that both assured representation and was sufficiently supportive of order to give reasonable government support to the people. You should note that it still kept the electoral college a witness to the physical problem of tallying the votes of a large and widely dispersed population. The biggest change was voting specifically for Vice President, where the original concept was that the two most supported political leaders would fill the two top spots. Where the original process had assumed that either could represent the people, either as president or as president of the Senate, the new process recognized that these were separate elections. The Thirteenth Amendment resulted from the divisive issue of slavery. It had become a major source of social and economic life for the people in the southern states, but was considered to be an offense by the majority of those in the north. There had been a long-standing and intensified push to outlaw slavery. A number of states had actually refused to continue as part of the United States on even the threat of outlawing their way of life. Agreement was not then possible. And so we entered into a self-defeating war that cost 165,000 lives. The legal foundation is remarkably simple in terms of the original Constitution. No citizen had a legal means to enter into his neighbor's property and liberate what the neighbor owned. We the people could not delegate this to our government or to its leadership. Could the states accede from the Union? Again, under the Constitution, the states were just territorial representatives of the sovereign people who lived in that territory. The sovereign citizen can, being sovereign, turn his back any way he wants to on a unit of government. The people were not educated in their legal relationship with the government under our constituting agreement, and so acted as if the states' rights were the real issue. And the central government, ignoring the limits of the Constitution, acted as if its sovereignty over the states was in threat. The price of this ignorance was the lives of 165,000 American citizens. That was, at the time, about 1% of the number of males and probably 2% or more of the young men of our nation. This amendment was passed with questionable agreement. The war might not have taken place if leadership had understood the deeper limits and potentials of the Constitution. Freeing the slaves by law was a seizure of private property. It was theft by government. It was legally forbidden on almost every count. It was also banned under the principle of being an ex post facto law, simply declaring that the slaves had always been wrongly owned, does not justify a change of taking them. That was an abuse by government that had been addressed in the Constitution, and here the government was acting just as badly toward its sovereign citizens as England had. There were legal ways to address this issue that could have been used, even over the objection of citizens. Political leaders acting as sovereign representatives of a sovereign government simply ignored what was legal because they had a cause they believed to be right. So what was legal? We have a constitutional process for taking private property for a public purpose, but it required judicial determination of value that had to be paid in order to make that seizure legal. Would there have been a civil war if the government had paid each owner what a jury of citizens determined to be fair? There would certainly have been great unrest, but the change would not have been tearing up the United States. Those who had been freed would not have just up and left the former owners with no way to make a living, and the owners would not have refused them higher. The work still had to be done if either were to make a living. There would be much difficulty in transition, but the federal courts would be there to urge the state courts to respect the seizure of a slave and the granting of freedom. The former owners would have less to complain about as they would have received just compensation in accord with a jury determination. So who would pay the massive bill? And it was then you ask, who paid for the civil war? Who paid for 165,000 lost futures for young men? Those who would free the slaves would have come up with the funds. They just couldn't enter their neighbors' homes and seize upon them like thieves. We will also address another potential method in accord with the 14th Amendment, one that could have provided a much gentler and less disruptive process for ending slavery. And so we see that two of these three amendments address political matters rather than the ordination and establishment of the central government. The 13th was so poorly conceived that even the threat of using the Constitution to legislate away the property rights of slave owners led to actualizing the division of the United States. As we will see, this is the witness to the abandonment of legal government, wherever those who are granted public authority believe their cause is just. They will behave as sovereign rulers and will spend the lives and fortunes of other sovereign citizens without any compulsion. Our need for a course in government and law goes beyond good policy. It goes to defense of our rights as a sovereign citizenry.


Hello and welcome! This is Jenkins Platform's SIG meeting for November 18, 2022. Today we are lucky enough to have Damien DuPortal, Stéphane Merle and myself. We've got quite a big agenda today with some open-action items, some news on Docker regions, Java 19, web container support, container image application for Blue Ocean, of course, container repository management for Jenkins agents, Java 11, Java 17 and ChromeTip Resource Summit Remix. Unfortunately, Mark is not there today because he has open-action items. He will someday write a support page for web containers similar to Windows and Linux support page because there are tons of web containers that people use in front of Jenkins and we maybe need documentation somewhere saying if it's supported or not and give some pointers, so Mark has to decide one of these days. The next subject now is for Damien. Thanks for being here. Docker agents. So it's still something in the making. The paint is not dry yet, but you have something you want to address regarding the three repositories that we have for Docker agents. Do you want maybe to start with a status update on what we did on the actual images or do you want me to focus on the merge? No, why not? It's a good idea. Thank you, Damien. Go ahead. So status updates. First, Docker slash agent and Docker. So the image is agent and the image inbound agent, which is built on top of agent. Both images have been updated recently with the latest Chideka 11 and 17 version in bound dash agent. So both updated this week. So we feature now curl is back inside these images. So it is your life when you want as an user to customize from one of these images and then you run commands to get elements. Curl was highly requested by users. It was added back to the SSH agent a few weeks or months ago thanks to Bruno. And there was a huge debate about adding it or not. Should it be or not? My proposal was to include it again because the added size to the image on the worst case was for Debian and in the case of Debian, it's five megabyte more on the layer, which is acceptable. However, we don't install W gates. Please, if you really, really need to use W gates instead of curl, that means that you are able to decide to build your own image and update the gate in style W gates. But still we provide curl for a reason because curl is used to retrieve elements already. So let's keep it inside the image. There has been some issues fixed as well on the images. You can look at the issues recently changed. And the new thing is now we have update CLI which try to keep track of the GDK remoting images. And the Jenkins inbound agents now receive once a week an update if then agent has been updated. So that should ensure that we deliver faster when we have a new version available unless we're relying on the availability of maintainer. Okay, that explains your last message on Docker agent saying that in boot agent should be with a new version in a few days also. So because it's updated once a week. Okay, exactly. So let's see how it behave. But right now we did the first cycle. We still have an issue on these images. Regularly, the system in charge of deploying to the Docker hub tries to build an old tag which is two years old for all the free images. And that tag override the latest tag, which is a nightmare for a lot of users.  And everything has been set up since one year at least to tell the Jenkins instance to not build tags that are more than six days old. So it shouldn't. And right now I've tried to debug directly in production at instant with the person in charge of the plugins on the core. And we still don't understand why it's being rebuilt. So in the upcoming weeks, we will try to directly disable this project and create brand new multi branch pipeline to see if behave differently. And if we keep having that issue, then we will migrate that deployment job from the current instance to the new one that we used to release Jenkins. Okay. So deployment error. So we are sorry for all the users suffering from that. We are trying our best, but it's weird. And the thing is Docker hub doesn't provide a way to lock or to constrain some of the latest tags. Either we allow a user to write it, all the tags of a given image, or we don't. We don't have a fine grain that will say that branch can only build that image. I see. And every time I see the same message of a user saying, how come there's a new old version appearing? No way. I can't believe it. It's amazing. That drive us crazy. So we really need the most probable thing is that that job is so hold and has received so much updates that we are sure there is something weird in its setup that we cannot reproduce on the brand new Jenkins modern instance. So creating a new job from scratch with the updated plugin should help on that area. Cool. Good luck with that. Sometimes randomly. That is our next focus. But yeah, that's the that's the status. So thanks to all the users. Some users helped us a lot by raising nice issues about IRM v7 not working for JDK 17. So we had to do a lot of back and forth changes. But now it's working very well. So thanks for this user. That means that people are using JDK 17, which is a good new. Yes, basically gives us the numbers of people migrating from 11 to 17 from time to time. And it's pretty encouraging. I don't have the most recent numbers. But at the beginning of November, it was really, really nice. Cool. One last thing. There is a discussion triggered about Arc Linux image. So Arc Linux image has been there for almost two years for the Jenkins base agent. It's not for the inbound agent. So I opened the topic, a draft pull request to create that new declination of operating system for the inbound agents team. One of the other maintainers said, I mean, why having so much different operating systems if we don't have the inbound agent requirement, maybe we should drop it at all. The thing is, right after that, I discovered that a lot of people are using Jenkins slash agents because we weren't good enough in communicating what is the goal of Jenkins agent. Jenkins agent today has the bare minimum for running an agent and the remote in jar file. And inbound agent only add a shell script. That's all. So shall we merge them or shall we move the agent remoting into inbound agent so Jenkins agent could be used as the same base for every kind of agent inbound and SSH. But in that process, that means we might have people using Arc Linux Jenkins agent since it exists. So we have to check the statistics on the Docker of the download statistics and see how much it represents on the total downloads before deciding if we should drop it or add it. So that's also my next step. Okay, speaking of statistics, this is not a trap, but the other day, you and I were trying to find some statistics about different architectures, you know, for the multi architecture images. Have you been able to find any input on which platform uses which image or is just a global thing and we will never, ever know which platform is using which image? No, I haven't had time to check the details, the statistics. Let me write it. I will check it on that part. Oh, so an action item for you. Thank you. Open action item. Oh, yeah. Okay, let me check Docker. So that's all for me on the status updates. For the rest, the proposal to merge the free agent repo, I have an action item opening an issue and putting everything I wrote everywhere on a single place. And I already have two users ready to help us testing that on their setup. So that's good. Yeah, indeed. And this week, it's minor, but we put back Git dependencies in order to be able to Git clone with Git protocol once again, because it had been removed along the way. So I was not trying to put a shameless plug. That was not the goal, just to share good news. Who doesn't love good news? And already merged. Thanks to you. For Git is back to the menu. Okay. Yeah, that's all for that topic. Thanks a lot. Next one. Unfortunately, we don't have any Jenkins core developers with us today, but it looks like they are still exploring Java 19. Does any one of you have any input on that subject? No, no, I don't either. Can we have an L desk issue for the Jenkins infra team to propose installation of Chideka 19 on the machines or the CI Jenkins IO so that the developer can start trying it on CI Jenkins IO? To add Java 19? Yes, right now. Thank you. Can I ask you, Stefan, to open the issue? And then right now, I'm opening it. Not to forget. Thanks a lot. Maybe at the end, Stefan, you could modify the documentation and put the link in it for the help desk ticket. I will try. Yeah, if you don't, that's okay. Thanks a lot. I like Damien to check out my English first, but with pleasure. Okay. This one has already been done. Come on. As you can guess, don't master Google Docs. Next subject, it was something for Mark and Kevin. Unfortunately, they're not there today. So we still have to do the container image deprecation for the Blue Sheen container documentation. Of course, everyone is supposed to know Blue Sheen is deprecated, but the container is not really deprecated. It's still supported, but it won't see any updates, any new features. And we also have old Blue Sheen containers, which are not maintained as far as I know. So we have to write somewhere that's the truth. It's not updated anymore. It's not secure to use them anymore. So just forget about it. But the documentation doesn't exist yet. So we have to do that. Oh, no, Damien. I've got a proposal for this one. Let me know. Is there someone against the idea of updating it one last time with a slip 10 seconds on the entry points, then a warning message, please don't use that image anymore pointing to the post and then slip 10 just for the sake of waiting a bit more. I know it's a bit rough, but at least people will listen. At least the users of that image. Very informative message giving status. That's pretty cruel, but efficient. I guess. Why not? Do you know who is supposed to maintain or use to maintain these containers or could anyone just make a pull request and see what happens? So I have access as administrator of the Docker hub to the registry. So we can always add images and push new references. But I'm sure there is Docker file hidden somewhere. I don't know, but I can try to search it. Got you. Most of the time when I ask such a question, the answer is go do your homework and you'll find out. Make a PR, please. That's the spirit of open source. Now, Damien, another round. I'm happy you're there for you. Container reposition management for Jenkins agents. Any progress on that? So I still need to write an issue now to get started. The progress is... So a reminder, the goal is to have a single location when we update JDK, remoting whatever base it's deployed on all images at the same time. We don't have to do a multiple step process. So we don't have to wait. Right now, the main challenge that I identified is how to split the different contents and that can be seen as what version pattern to use. We currently have a semantic versioning pattern for the SSH image. Because the SSH image does not depend on the remoting version. When you use the SSH image, Jenkins connect to the SSH agent and upload the remoting version that it currently uses with the correct version. If you upgrade Jenkins, it will upgrade automatically the remoting. So we don't need on the SSH agent any dependency to the remoting. The thing is the Jenkins agent, which is the base image, is currently bound with its version pattern to the remoting version. So the core of the proposal is that first we have to advertise user using Jenkins slash agent to start as soon as possible to move to inbound agent instead. Because both images do the same role, except on the feedback I got, people using the base image, it's because they use the Docker cloud plugin, which spawn agent based on container. And the Docker cloud plugin, like the Kubernetes plugin, they override the default entry point. Since inbound agent today only had a shell script and define it as the default entry point, I mean, that's why it worked, but it shouldn't. So the core of the proposal is that I want to propose a semantic versioning pattern for all images. So that means inbound agent will stop having the remoting version inside the version pattern. Or eventually, it could have it as a semantic version compliant post metadata. That will be 1.0.0 plus the remoting version. But since it's a really long version, most of the user don't even check. Because the main problem is given, the latest version of the remoting is 3071.git hash. Do you know with which version of Jenkins it's compliant with? There is a range of versions that work with that version, but which one? There is no such information. So the value of saying, hey, use that version dash four, because it's the fourth build of that image with that remoting version, that makes no sense. That's why using semantic versioning, since we have released drafter, that will gain more information for the consumer of the image. And that could help us saying, don't use the latest, use the semantic version. Always keep the patch version if you want the latest bug fixes that you have for your current line. And if you go to a version with the minor, then you can expect some breaking. And if you use the major version, then it will break everything. So that will be a change in the way it's handled. But I haven't met people right now really using that. They use the latest. So either they use latest tag, either like we do on the infra, they get the latest version, which is fixed on their Docker file. And then they use that fixed version. But it's just the latest and they try it like this. So proposal is have the same version pattern for every images. Each time we have a new release, it releases all the images, SSH and inbound. So you will have 1.0.0, 1.1.0, etc. And that's all that should simplify. Avoid the issues with the remoting and will allow us to have a single build. That's the core proposal. Okay, there is much more to this proposal than I had envisioned. In fact, it's much more complicated and it's not devastating, but it's a new concept. In fact, it's not just grabbing the three repos and grouping everything together. Okay. I hadn't understood that before. That's the long road. Just a note. I tried to give you a strategic view, but I will proceed step by step. First, we will keep this version pattern as we have today. We will start merging the source code because the goal is initially is to deliver more often and more efficiently. Then the version pattern will just be a way for us to automate the continuous delivery of these images. We merge a pull request. If we are in full summary, it will be clearly easier to say you merge a pull request and your release is automatically deployed and tagged. But that's the long road. That will be a step by step process. That's why I'm sharing the vision here. Then I will try to write on that vision on the issue and I will give a plan of the different steps. Some steps will be done, mandatory, some won't. Some will be discussed and refused. That's why first the vision and then the step by step plan. Got it. Thank you for this much needed explanation. So, it's not linked subject that we already discussed about Java 19 and required Java 11 on newer is still a thing for Jenkins core. But of course, Java 17 is progressing in Jenkins. And recently, I haven't seen any new issue appearing with JDK 17, because most of the problems that appeared with Java 11 were already solved by JDK 17. So, nothing bad to say about the progress of JDK 17 with Jenkins. All is fine for my point of view. I don't know if you have a different kind of input on that. We don't have yet. One of our next step is to move the Jenkins Infra controllers to JDK 17. And if it works, the plan is trying to move CI Jenkins IO to JDK 17 in January. That will be a nice goal demonstrating that we can do it with a size of this instance. Most of the people who worked on the JDK 17, including Basil, are pretty optimistic about that. So, for me, it's a good step. So, we are going to go step by step first infrastructure and then CI Jenkins IO if everyone is okay. The only bad thing I heard about JDK 17 and Jenkins was about using Jenkins and JDK 17 in a Docker image for ARM v7. Most of our users won't be bothered by that. And I think we already solved the problem by not using Jelink anymore. So, all is fine. And that will probably save money too because it's faster. So, we will save money on the engines that we spawn, especially on CI. Absolutely. So, more gifts at Christmas time. Which could be a machine, by the way. Anyhow, next subject is contributor submit remix. So, I haven't written the date yet, but it's on the 13th and 14th of December and it will three segments. I don't know how we will make three segments in two days, but anyhow, I think it's just two to three hours per segment. Because you can't just replicate two a whole day in a physical venue into something online. One full day online won't make it, especially because we are all over the world. So, that won't work. That's why I think Alisa Tong and Mark Wade shows a time slot that would fit for USA and EMEA and maybe the rest of the world. So, stay tuned. I think we'll already have something in the community Jenkins.io about that. And of course, there will be some blog posts on Jenkins.io too. The other subject, but I haven't progressed yet, is RISC 5. The machine is still there on my desk. It hasn't been booted yet. But I have found that there are several distro available, Ubuntu in 22.10, but also the latest Armbian is available for this world. So, as I'm an Armbian user, I think I will use Armbian. And we have several different OpenGDK versions from the 11, 0, 16 to 20. That was not something I was expecting. GDK's 24 RISC 5 architecture. Why not? Of course, I won't try Jenkins with such a recent version of Java, but even with 17, that would be pretty nice. So, my first goal is to run a Jenkins agent. And that's no darker, just a Jenkins agent with Java. And that's all. And hopefully, I will keep you posted. That would be a nice Christmas gift for me, having a Jenkins agent running on an unknown to us architecture. We'll see. And unless you have any comments, feedback, questions, I think we're done. Bruno, I put the link for the new issue that you can add in the... Oh, where did you put it? In the chat, maybe? In the chat. In the chat. Oh, thank you so much. You should be able to edit the notes, Stephen. I don't want to not see you. I don't want to miss anything that Bruno is saying. Oh, too kind of yours. When you... the date for the Contributor Semix remix, I don't remember. Yeah, sorry. I will write it down. 13th and 14th of December. It's our door. It's, you know, in a few weeks from now. Cool. Anything else, folks? So it's Tuesday and Wednesday. Yeah. Never on Monday. Anyhow, I was really happy to have you on this call. The recording should be available in 24 to 48 hours. And see you in two weeks from now. Thank you. See you tonight. Bye-bye.


This week I have a couple of fun things. I'm filming a commercial with a company that I worked with really recently. They hired me for another commercial around the same subject in Spanish and I am rehearsing the script right now. So I just did this for a few minutes and because it's in Spanish, I'm also rehearsing it with my mom so she can let me know if I'm saying everything correctly or not. And then I just got this chip chart from Savage because I am not sure what color exactly my gray is. I got my gray in person at a Mike's camera store. I didn't save the tag or anything and so I got one of these and so I'm going to show you guys exactly the gray that I have because the gray one is the one I use primarily for my audition. So people will sometime ask me what color is your gray and my apartment is a little bit of a mess right now but I have my backdrops right here so let's take a look and see exactly what mine is. I thought it was fashion gray but just like looking at it when I looked at this I was like I don't think I have fashion gray. I moved closer to a window to see if this would let us see it better with natural lighting and I'm trying to make sure that the camera is showing what I'm seeing as well. It looks like mine is actually going to be either focus gray or stone gray. Is mine stone gray? When I was looking at this color chart in the living room next to my computer I could have swore it was focus gray but now that I'm seeing it here I'm pretty sure it's actually stone gray. They're so, they're so so so similar. The road mic I used to use for basically all of my videos I took it out and it sounded super crackly and terrible and I've just noticed it's not doing so great. So I just went to a camera store and I got a smart mic which it just clicks right into the like the headphone jack so I will be using this when I use my gimbal and then I got this other one it's called Lightweight on Camera Microphone and it's a road mic so it's a little bit bigger and yes I'm really excited to film some stuff right now I'm just using the audio from my phone but let me see if I can put it in right now. It's only $25 so it's not bad. It's a Ceremonic smart mic. So I just got out of a shoot and I of course couldn't film anything in there because you know but I'll tell you about it as soon as I can I'll put the link in the description but I have a call at 1 p.m. and right now it's 12 30 my friend lives nearby so I just texted her I was like can I come to your apartment and take a call at 1 in like your backyard or something I just don't want to be in my car while trying to take the call but the shoot was super fun it's with somebody that I've worked with once before and it's a similar it's basically the same product just a little bit more about that product and this time was a little bit longer because the script was longer teleprompter which I have only worked with a couple of times but everybody here is so nice I love this production team they're they're just really nice patient prepared I love them why are salads so good wait not always sometimes you have to buy the right stuff I'm having lunch and I decided on a healthy salad and I'm feeling a lot more relaxed today so yesterday also happy Mexican Independence Day today I always wish I was in Mexico today or last night to tonight or to today because midnight to the 16th it's like Mexican New Years I don't know it's really fun but I am feeling a lot better today I had been feeling really anxious for the past honestly a couple of weeks because YouTube reached out and they have been amazing to work with YouTube reached out and was like can we feature you we don't want to feature you unless you're okay with it because it can come with a lot of negativity blah blah blah so they just made me feel really comfortable and thank you so much if you're subscribed to my channel you're new welcome oh my gosh thanks thank you so much for subscribing that's so sweet of you or if you're just watching a video thank you but since yesterday I've gained about 300 subscribers which is a lot it's scary I was anxious because it's scary to think that maybe a bunch of people are gonna come look at you and come look at this it's like my baby my YouTube channel is like my baby I I've worked on it for so long I have around 430ish public videos and I have privated a lot of videos just because they're not about acting but um yeah I'm feeling so much better I'm eating something healthy tomorrow Friday I'm gonna have a call with Vitoria vitoria vitoria I still don't I'm not sure how to pronounce her name wait do you do you prefer an English pronunciation or it's what I've always been around but I actually that's the first time I've ever anyone's ever asked me I actually don't know yeah because most people like Vitoria yeah don't worry you can call me V too a lot of people call me V so whatever whatever you prefer no no no she has a YouTube channel I will definitely feature her in one of my videos this month but I have a meeting with her and then with Javi Javier who are filmmakers and actors and we're going to be filming some things this weekend and so on Friday we're gonna have a production meeting and we're gonna talk about the scripts and I'm just really excited to be filming with some friends it's so cool we're all vaccinated we're all careful but yeah I'm feeling pretty good I hope I continue to feel like this last night I could hardly sleep like my body is just full of anxiety for no reason well for reasons but I need to chill cuz those reas like I'm whenever I get a lot of anxiety I'm like look look you're okay you're you're solid right now you're fine nothing is happening it's Friday and I got a package today so I've had these like background mounts for a while I got them on Amazon and they're okay just sometimes they're a little wobbly and now that I'm doing even my full-body shop for auditions with these backdrops or these paper backdrops and like stepping on them it's really hard they're super flimsy and then I have a really long backdrop that just doesn't do well with these and it's barely long enough so I contacted Savage and I was like can you guys send me like a mount so I got it so I'm gonna open it right now and test it out the once I got from Amazon these ones I've had them for a while and they were only around $30 and like I said they're okay but they're just annoying especially when it gets hot and you just really want to set everything up easily it's annoying so we're gonna put these let's see comes in a little savage case I've never had a savage case before oh my gosh this feels so sturdy compared to the other one I don't know if it's long enough oh wait there's more I got scared for a second because I thought this was it this length but then there's it keeps going maybe nine feet okay you know what my ceilings are nine feet and this is taller and for these Amazon ones the bottom don't really doesn't really have any protection the savage ones they have this that's nice and thick as you can see and it won't slip as much that's nice okay so I really like it so far because it's really sturdy these things right here you like clamp them in order to secure the stand the bottom of the stand is really wide so you don't have to worry about it not having enough stability where the other one you can adjust how narrow or wide it is which this does take more space but it's also a lot more sturdy I'm very excited to have this and you can see it has so much room I mean this goes almost all the way across my room and something that I was talking about earlier in this vlog is the color I still can't figure out the dang color of it so what I'm gonna do in different linings it looks like either focus gray or stone gray what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut a piece of this and we're gonna take it outside in natural light so that I can tell you guys which color I actually have but really it doesn't matter it depends on your skin tone what's gonna look better for you but usually grays and blues are good with most skin tones and then they have a lot of grays they have nine grays so let me cut a piece now that I'm outside this definitely looks like fashion gray so I was right all along all right so this is officially fashion gray I have confirmed it with natural lighting because in my bedroom I have philip he lights that are a little bit yellow and then some lights for my plants and then a little bit of natural light coming in so it definitely changes it once you're in here it's so funny I thought it was so many different colors but it's officially fashion gray oh and I ended up returning that big microphone because it was a hundred dollars and I had also bought this other one and I bought a lavalier mic so I was like I don't think I need all of them I tried this one out the one I'm using right now is the mini one and it's working well so I decided to return the other one maybe I'll need it I'll get it in the future if I need it but for now I'm just gonna use this little mic that I have let me show it to you it's this one my ears a little dirty I'll see you guys in a second when it's time to do the zoom call with Victoria and Javi I'll check it out in the morning the script because I'm gonna be doing stuff yeah alright thank you guys I'm so excited oh right it is 10 15 p.m. and we just finished our zoom call so Victoria Javi and I are going to be shooting a short tomorrow and sister is also gonna help us with the sound but right now we just had a meeting Javi, Victoria and I and we talked about the script they had already developed some ideas and then we just went and put some scenes in there and talked about the characters props all of that getting coffee parking and so tomorrow we're going to be making a short which I'm super excited about once that is edited and ready to go it'll be on bless stress so you guys can go subscribe to that if you want to see that but next week's vlog will be starting with tomorrow Saturday so if you're watching this the day the day this vlog is going up will be filming a short today I'm really excited to be collaborating and creating some shorts I know it's gonna be a lot of work especially like leading up to it because it's already so late and I still have some stuff to prepare but anyway I'm gonna end this vlog now thank you so much for watching and at the end of every video I feature another channel today I want to feature cryptic Jasmine she guys should go check her out she's super cute she makes goth and alternative art content content and she does hauls reviews things like that so check her out and if you would like to be featured on my next video make sure subscribed like this video and leave me a comment tell me what kind of content you make


Hi everyone. Welcome again to the Course in Miracles Lessons Live and today we're going to look at workbook lesson 133. I will not value what is valueless. Thank you Jesus. Wow. Here's what Jesus has to say to us today. Sometimes in teaching there is benefit particularly after you have gone through what seems theoretical and far from what the student has already learned to bring him back to practical concerns. This we will do today. We will not speak of lofty world-encompassing ideas but well instead on benefits to you. Oh my gosh are we in for a bright today. He's talking about what is practical and what is of benefit to you. So I can think of two no two words that are more joyful for me right now than practical and benefits. I'm ready to fully experience and embrace the practical benefits not world-encompassing ideas. You do not ask too much of life but far too little. When you let your mind be drawn to bodily concerns, to things you buy, to eminence as valued by the world, you ask for sorrow not for happiness. This course does not attempt to take from you the little that you have. It does not try to substitute utopian ideas for satisfactions which the world contains. There are no satisfactions in the world. Today we list the real criteria by which to test all things you think you want. Unless they meet these sound requirements they are not worth desiring at all. For they can but replace what offers more. The laws that govern choice you cannot make, no more than you can make alternatives from which to choose. The choosing you can do, indeed you must, but it is wise to learn the laws you set in motion when you choose and what alternatives you choose between. We have already stressed that there are but two, however many there appear to be. The range is set and this we cannot change. It would be most ungenerous to you to let alternatives be limitless and thus delay your final choice until you had considered all of them in time and not been brought so clearly to the place where there is but one choice that must be made. When I'm reading these last paragraphs, these last two paragraphs, I'm thinking of that section in the course called the real alternatives. In that section Jesus says that the range is set there are but two and that men have died upon seeing that the roadways of the world were offering nothing but death. So if you're wanting a context for this workbook lesson today in these last two paragraphs, these paragraphs are confusing to you at all. Read the real alternative section because basically Jesus is saying in there all the roadways of the world lead to death. Men have died upon seeing this but if they had just taken one more step they would have been lifted to heights of happiness. That's a summary of the real alternative section. So it's basically saying these two paragraphs that I just read are basically saying there are no satisfactions in the world and when you choose any value of this world, anything at all whatsoever, you set in motion the laws of fear, the laws of the ego, of guilt, pain, shame. If you choose the ego even if you say I don't really recognize what that is but if you choose to value anything at all of this world and I mean absolutely anything at all in time and space in the linear cosmos that the ego projected. If you value what the ego invented then you are afraid of the correction and the real alternative is the Holy Spirit's correction, it's forgiveness, it's the goal of the course, it's the atonement, it's happiness, it's joy, it's love and if you value anything at all of this world then you set in motion the laws of the ego which have no basis and no reality because God didn't create the ego. God is so pure of pure spirit, love, light, eternity that God doesn't look upon the ego, it's the Holy Spirit that is the bridge that overlooks the error. You might say overlooks the darkness, the defiled altar, the ego belief and then looks to the light of the atonement and sees the great rays, the blazing lights of God and that's the Holy Spirit's function. But if you value something of this world, anything, anything at all of this world then that just means there's going to be a generated fear of the correction, of the atonement, of God, of Jesus. You can't love something that God didn't create. If you love something that is fictitious, it's fantasy, it's make-believe which is the whole cosmos then basically you cannot open your heart to the true love of God which is purely divine light and abstraction. It's like an eclipse where the correction now is the thing that you value and it's a total eclipse of the heart. It's a total eclipse of valuing the correction more than the error and then you accept the correction. So it's basically saying I'm going to choose the correction that opens me to heaven, to the remembrance of God's love. Another kindly and related law is that there is no compromise in what your choice must bring. It cannot give you just a little for there is no in between. Each choice you make brings everything to you or nothing. Let's read that one sentence again. Each choice you make brings everything to you or nothing. Therefore, if you learn the test by which you can distinguish everything from nothing, you will make the better choice. First, if you choose a thing that will not last forever, what you chose is valueless. A temporary value is without all value. Time can never take away a value that is real. What fades and dies was never there and makes no offering to him who chooses it. He is deceived by nothing in a form he thinks he likes. So this is hearkening back to the Beyond all idols section in the text where Jesus says your will is universal and cannot be content with form of any kind. And also that section has the very wonderful sentence, God knows not form, period. That one fits real well with our lesson 132 yesterday. There is no world exclamation point. Oh, look at those two. One from the text, one from the workbook. God knows not form, period. There is no world exclamation. Okay. I can just see that there's indescribable happiness in this realization because you're not going to be chasing after something that's Maya, that's illusion, that's fictitious, that's fantasy. Just accept the truth and be happy. Next, if you choose to take a thing away from someone else, you will have nothing left. This is because when you deny his right to everything, you have denied your own. You therefore will not recognize the things you really have. Denying that they're there. Who seeks to take away has been deceived by the illusion loss can offer gain. Yet loss must offer loss and nothing more. Okay. What's he's saying in this paragraph? If you choose to take a thing away from anyone, you have nothing left. He's basically saying that the concept of reciprocity is impossible. You cannot have a situation where you're giving to get something in return. You cannot look at anything like commerce as being real. You can't look at relationships in a reciprocal way.   The whole cosmos of linear time is based on reciprocity and he's basically saying here in paragraph seven, no, there is no such thing as reciprocity. God doesn't understand reciprocity. He's saying if you want to know God, you have to also not understand reciprocity. That's right. What does this mean for my business? Let's get about the father's business now. Is that all right? Is it all right to be about the father's business? What's the father's business? Love, divine love, agape love, eternal love, infinite love. That's the father's business. It doesn't have anything to do with commerce. No. Does it have anything to do with supply and demand? No. Does it have anything to do with reciprocity? No. Do you have to sign a contract? I'll do this if you do that and I agree to this if you do that. No, no, no, nada, nada, nada, nada. It doesn't involve reciprocity. It's a game. If you can watch the game and see it as a game, you will be indescribably happy. You don't have to deny what your body's eyes seem to be witnessing, but you know that there's no reciprocal arrangement involved in this moment. The present moment is not reciprocal. Okay. So we'll read those last two sentences. Who seeks to take away has been deceived by the illusion loss can offer gain. Opposite, duality, nada, nada, nada. Yet loss must offer loss and nothing more. Okay. Basic fact. Your next consideration is the one on which the others rest. Why is the choice you make of value to you? What attracts your mind to it? What purpose does it serve? Here it is easiest of all to be deceived. For what the ego wants, it fails to recognize. It does not even tell the truth as it perceives it, for it needs to keep the halo which it uses to protect its goals from tarnish and from rust that you may see how innocent it is. Yet is its camouflage a thin veneer which could deceive but those who are content to be deceived? Its goals are obvious to anyone who cares to look for them. Here is deception double. For the one who is deceived will not perceive that he has merely failed to gain. He will believe he has served the ego's hidden goals. Yet, though he tries to keep its halo clear within his vision, still must he perceive its tarnished edges and its rusted core. His ineffectual mistakes appear as sins to him because he looks upon the tarnish as his own. The rust, a sign of deep unworthiness within himself. He who would still preserve the ego's goals and serve them as his own makes no mistakes according to the dictates of his guide. This guidance teaches it is error to believe that sins are but mistakes. For who would suffer for his sins if this were so? And so we come to the criterion for choice that is the hardest to believe because its obviousness is overlaid with many levels of obscurity. If you feel any guilt about your choice, you have allowed the ego's goals to come between the real alternatives. And thus, you do not realize there are but two and the alternative you think you chose seems fearful and too dangerous to be the nothingness it actually is. All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain. Choosing is easy because of this. Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke which hides the very simple fact that no decision can be difficult. What is the game to you in learning this? It is far more than merely letting you make choices easily and without a pain. Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. We will attempt to reach the state today with self-deception laid aside and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. Our two extended practice periods of 15 minutes each will begin with this. I will not value what is valueless and only what has value do I seek for only that do I desire to find. And then receive what waits for everyone who reaches unencumbered to the gate of heaven which swings open as he comes. Should you begin to let yourself collect some needless burdens or believe you see some difficult decisions facing you, be quick to answer with this simple thought. I will not value what is valueless for what is valuable belongs to me. So as we just look at the lesson for the day, I will not value the valueless, we just have to remember one thing that that which is eternal, that which is everlasting, that which is of God, that which is of spirit, heaven is valuable and anything else that's temporary has no value whatsoever. We cannot continue to try to put those two words together, temporary value. No, there is no such thing. It's an oxymoron, it's a contradiction in terms to talk about temporary values because the present moment is our gateway to eternity and if we value anything of time, which would be linear time, the past and the future, we obliterate an awareness now and now is all there is. So if we want to know what's real and true and we want to be in the joy of heaven, we want to be peaceful, loving, gleeful, laughing, shining, sharing, extending, this moment is it. This moment offers everything that I could ever want. If you want something, why not just say I want to be present as Eckhart Tolle talks about. Presence is no small gift. The presence of God, the presence of love, the presence of oneness, this beautiful, beautiful, simple, simple presence is only obscured by the belief in linear time and the things of time and they're just not worth it.  Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, and might. That's it. That's just valuing God, valuing love more than anything else. That's the choice. And also in the Bible in Corinthians it said that which is temporary will pass away, but that which is eternal will last forever. There it is. That's it, right in Corinthians. The introduction to a Course in Miracles. Nothing real can be threatened. Spirit cannot be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Yeah, there's nothing but spirit. Herein lies the peace of God. So thank you for joining me today. Wow, what a roll. Yesterday I lost the world from all I thought it was. And today I simply will not value what is valueless. And that's because love is too important to put any value on anything else but love, but divine love. Lots of love. It's time for me to go off to a movie workshop today. And if you want to sign up, yeah, sign up quickly because in about 40 minutes we launch on on the, I think there's only three movie workshops left. So we're going into a deep shift. This is mysticism. This is going deep, deep, deep, deep. That's all we are. That's all there is. So yeah, this is the third last movie workshop today. So if you haven't signed up, please do. I'm going to use a lot of Buddhist symbols from the teaching today. The title of the movie is Wandering But Not Lost. It's a it's a documentary of a Rinpoche. And I'm going to use that to teach the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Okay, lots of love. See you at the movies. Feel you in my heart.