Attention five points residents. This is a community notification of a new sexually violent predator in your area. Please stay tuned to the following short program for more information. Hi I'm technician Ron Hackett with the Denver Police Department. The sex offender registration and compliance unit at DPD is responsible for the registration monitoring and tracking of all registered sex offenders and sexually violent predators who live in the city and county of Denver. Here's a brief history of sex offender legislation in Colorado. Our state laws trickle down from federal government mandates. In 1994 we had the Jacob Wetterling Act which mandated that states would establish a sex offender list. Magans law of 1996 said that the public would have access to those sex offender registration lists. The Pam Litchner Act of 1996 stated that some offenders might have to have lifetime registrations and the Adam Walsh Act of 2006 unified sex offender laws across the country. In Colorado the legislature has determined that sexually violent predators by definition pose a higher risk to the community at large and therefore mandated that upon their release from the Department of Corrections the community must be notified. Sex offender notification in Colorado happens in two ways. The first is passive and ongoing through the sex offender registration process which is a list maintained by local police departments. The second way is active via community notification for those offenders determined to be sexually violent predators by the courts or by the parole board. Most sex offenders in Colorado are supervised by the criminal justice system in our communities. Most sex offenders engage in crossover behavior which means they may have been arrested for one type of crime but be apt to commit another.  There is no typical sex offender but all tend to be deceptive, manipulative and secretive. 80 to 93 percent of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the victim. Sexual deviancy begins in mid to late adolescence. Sex offenses are not impulsive.  The community has a vested interest in helping offenders to be successfully managed in the community. Sex offenders have the same need for housing and employment as any other citizen.  There are approximately 16,500 registered sex offenders in the state of Colorado. About 65 percent of convicted sex offenders are placed in the community on probation. The remainder are in the Department of Corrections or Community Corrections. Offenders may be caught for one type of offense but be at a high risk to commit another type. Crime of conviction is only one indicator of risk.  The offender's residents must be verified quarterly by the Denver Police Department. The full sex offender registration list is available by calling the Denver Police Department Identification Bureau at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Convicted felons and those with multiple convictions are posted online at denvergov.org slash police.   Now here's a look at the newest sexually violent predator living in Denver. Here's an overview of the registered sex offenders currently living in Denver. There are 2,501 total living within city limits. In Denver Police District 6, there are 437. Precinct 611 has 146 registered sex offenders. Of those, 100 have felony convictions and 46 have misdemeanor convictions. Manuel Richard Garcia III is a sexually violent predator currently living in Denver. He's 41 years old and was born on November 2nd, 1980.  He's currently living as a transient in the 1100 block of Park Avenue West in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver. Schools located within one mile of this offender include Whittier Elementary at 2480 Downing Street, Emily Griffith High School and Downtown Denver Expeditionary School both at 1860 Lincoln Street, Polaris Elementary at 410 Park Avenue West, University Prepper Appahoe Street at 2409 Arapahoe Street, Gilliam School at 2844 Downing Street, Denver Language School Gilpin Campus at 2949 California Street, Rise Up Community School at 2342 Broadway, Montessori Academy of Colorado at 2500 Curtis Street. Parks located within one mile of this offender include Benedict Fountain Park, Skyline Park, Stout Street Children's Park, Commons Park, Quick Park, McIntosh Park, Denver Skate Park, Mistezo Curtis Park, Maestas Park, Lawson Park, Creek Front Park, Downtown Playground, Park Avenue Parks, City of Cuernavaca Park, Williams Park, Sculpture Park, Spear Boulevard Park, Broadway Triangles, Reillyard Dog Park, Civic Center Park, Pioneer Monument Park. Recreation centers located within one mile of this offender include 20th Street Rec Center at 1011 20th Street, Glen Arm Rec Center at 2800 Glen Arm Street. Bus routes located within one mile of this offender include Route 8 Park Avenue West and Lawrence Street, Route 38 Park Avenue West and Lawrence Street, routes 44 and 48 Broadway and Arapahoe Street.  He's not currently on parole and registered with the Denver Police Department on August 2nd, 2022 as a transient living in the 1100 block of Park Avenue West in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver.  Manual Richard Garcia III has been determined as sexually violent predator after meeting the following criteria. Criteria one, age 18 or older on the date of the offense or under 18 and tried as an adult. The offender was ages 16 and 23 at the time of the offenses. Criteria two, the crime must have been committed honor after July 1st, 1997 and convicted honor after July 1st, 1999.  The offender was convicted on April 25th, 1997 for two different cases of sexual assault on a child and on January 14th, 2004 for attempted sexual assault on a child. Criteria three, the relationship to the victim was one of the following. Victim was a stranger to the offender or the offender established or promoted a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. In the first two related cases, the victims were nine and 11-year-old females who were known to the offender. The other case involved a 14-year-old female who was also known to the offender. Criteria four, positive results or the passing of a risk assessment instrument administered by probation parole staff and a qualified treatment evaluator. Positive results include an assessment for the presence of a mental abnormality, a level of denial regarding the offense, treatment appropriateness and motivation, presence of sexual deviant interests. The offender was evaluated by the Adams County Courts with positive results determining him to be a sexually violent predator.


The withdrawal of the Attala Marginal Oil Field License from the Biasol State Oil Company by the Food Government has continued to generate controversy with the Ejo Youth Council IYC supporting the state government position that the license be re-awarded to the state. Former Governor of Biasol State and current Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timmy Press Silver, had recently given reasons for the withdrawal of the license saying that the Food Government was losing funds because the Marginal Oil Field was not being utilized by the Biasol State Government, reacted by calling on the Food Government to re-award the Attala Marginal Oil Field mining lease to the state. Speaking to our correspondent, Jesse Eisei, on the recent development, the National Spokesman of the Ejo Youth Council IYC, Comrade Epilade Ekerefe, described the Attala Marginal Oil Field as Biasol's most prized asset, saying that the new administration should be given a trial. The government should be able to tell the GPR that the government has the capacity to manage the Marginal Oil Field. And if the government has also made that serious commitment to getting back the oil field, what I expect the GPR of other critical stakeholders that is responsible to issuing out the license to secure further commitment from the government, but to completely revoke the oil license and give it to a company that is not even known by some of us who are critical stakeholders and leaders from this place is something that we are not too comfortable with. The IYC spokesman also commented and commented also on the controversy surrounding the Petroleum Industry Bill kicking against the 3% for host communities while frontier basins get 30%. Also, Ejo Nationalist and Chairman Supreme Egbeshu Assembly were in a prayer. Noelle de Giffa stressed the need for resource control as he maintained that a bill has no bearing on the livelihood of the people. Do the NNPC need the sales of oil production from the Niger Delta region to fund the frontier basins? And if the Niger Delta is volatile and oil production is being brought to the parents' minimum, how will they not get the money to fund the frontier basins? So that is the fundamental question we are asking. Now, policies came into the passage of the bill and our people now say, okay, now give me 35%. Just to show that commitment, they went back and kept it at 3%. As the joint council and every stakeholder in this region is kicking against that bill that was passed, it has no effect on the lifestyle of our people. We are the highest losers. Our environment is polluted. The receivers, out of how many oil block, which one was given to an Ejo man as an ethnic group? Ejo, as they said, is the fourth largest tribe. Biasa is just a small place. So if the Biasa have a imaginary oil field, and you are denied out of the management issue, what do you think?


Welcome to Sheboyton County Government. Working for you, my name is Adam Payne, County Administrator and Co-Chairman. Co-Chairman! See I've done it again. Co-host of this program with County Board Chairman Roger Distruty. And as you know every month we strive to bring a different program, service, department, raise awareness about the good work that county employees are doing. And we have some newer folks in county government. In fact a newer department head who recently ran very successfully for the Clerk of Courts Melody Largy. Welcome Melody. Thank you. If you've been at the courthouse to pay a fee or a fine, or you've been involved with the circuit courts or jury, you probably have some knowledge of the Clerk of Courts. But if not you're going to get some good information today. And Melody has brought along one of her good friends all the way back from high school. They both just graduated from high school a few years ago. And with her today is Jennifer Zimmerman. Welcome Jennifer. Thank you. Let me start with Melody. Melody just share a little bit about your background. I just shared you're from Sheboyton County. Where'd you grow up? I'm in Sheboyton Falls. I have been a resident of Sheboyton County my whole life. I married my husband Mike for 26 years. I have two adult daughters, Ashley and Carly. And you have been with the county for how long? I will be with the county 28 years next month. 28 years next month. I'll bet you folks can hardly believe that. And boy have things changed in the department over the years since then. When I started I was the family clerk way back when and the way we did the docketing was way different. No computers. We used these big old docket cards and everything was typed, manually typed. Technology has really changed. And you work for years as the chief deputy to Nantad or was that more recent? That was more recent. That was probably two and a half years ago. I started doing that. And some folks may recognize that name Nantad was with the clerk of courts for I think over 30 years. I believe it was 35 years and 36 years. Long time running clerk of courts and decided to retire and Melody decided to step up and run for office and did quite well. Thank you. And with Melody today as I said as Jennifer again back we just learned this off the air. High school classmates a couple years apart. And you've been with the county for now 26 years. And what's your role in the clerk of courts office? I am the chief deputy clerk of courts to Melody. Yeah. And from the area as well? I am from Schwoigen County. I've lived here all my life. I'm married to my husband Mark. I have adult grown daughter Erica and a son Jacob at home. And I started in the clerk of courts office as the filing clerk. And then I proceeded into the accounting department and now I am her chief deputy. So you both have two adult children out of the nest? Out of the nest? Still on payroll. My youngest is graduating from high school this year. So my wife and I are going to be empty nesters for the first time this fall. We have three children. So I'm right with you. In fact, I know I won't say our age Melody, but Melody and I are high school classmates. We both graduated the same year. So the clerk of courts it's an elected position every four years. And you were just elected when? I took the new term as of January 5 of this year. Okay. My first term. And now you're no longer the chief deputy as your classmate here is. Jennifer, you are the director. How's it been going so far? Real well. It's been going real well. Yeah. My sense. I've heard nothing but positives. You've got good people around you. A seasoned staff. How many staff do you have? 24. 24. And what are the roles and responsibilities of the clerk of courts? If someone has never heard of it before never stepped in the county courthouse. What does the clerk of courts do? We are the keeper of the court records. And we also are the are responsible for jury management. We provide court personnel to the courtrooms to all five courtrooms and the family court commissioners B10 courtroom to take minutes for the office. So a lot going on. Right. And we also collect all the fines, fees and filing fees. So you mentioned there's five circuit courts. And if you're not familiar with that, we have five courts that are run by state judges. And your staff helps support those judges. What kind of work did they do to help the judges be successful? Well, like I said earlier, we provide clerks to go to court and take the minutes in which they come back to the to the office. And we have staff that process the paperwork, do the jail papers, send out notices, enter the, you know, all the information in the computer that was set in court, put assess the fines. That's when the fines are actually assessed if any are assessed and then perfect. So if I'm not going to court, but I've gotten a speeding ticket, which I'm sure some of our viewers have. And I have to pay that I can come to the clerk of courts office and pay that there as well. Is that right? Correct. And how does that work? Is I have to wait in long lines to get assistance? What happens?  Some days we can be very overwhelmed in the in the office. But usually it's not too big of a waiting period. We do accept credit cards now at the front window. We recently got a swipe machine. Makes a little easier for people. Right. Yeah, good. And obviously, we accept cash and checks and money orders. Do you prefer cash? Yes, we prefer cash. Good. Well, fortunately, I haven't been in there recently. I know my daughter was in there about a year ago paying a speeding ticket. And of course, people don't have to come to your office to pay a speeding ticket. They can send that in the mail, right? I presume that's what most people do. And you can also pay online. Very good. The other area that your office deals a lot with, and frankly, I find it rather amazing how smoothly it goes as you are responsible for administering and putting together all these jury notices and reaching out to the community and asking them to serve, which is a very important responsibility of people in the community. How does that work?  Correct. Well, we request 6000 names that come from the Department of Transportation. We and as you said, they are picked randomly. We get a it's put into our system electronically. And then from those names, we send out jury notices or jury questionnaires to the people, which they fill out, you know, the questions and they send it back to us. And we also now you can also do it online. So if you prefer to do it online and not send it in the mail, you can do that. And I don't recall that. When was that change made? I think just I'm not real quite sure. Maybe six months with them. Yeah, I believe so. Very good. Very good. So once an individual receives that letter, and I can recall the first time I received it, I thought, oh, this could be kind of interesting. I've never served on jury duty. And ultimately, I wasn't able to because being a county employee, the judge excused me. But they get that notice. And then what happens? Well, when we talked about the questionnaires of those, just because you got a questionnaire doesn't mean that you're actually going to be served serving on a jury. When we get those back and we put every all the information in the computer. Some people aren't eligible. So out of all those, we probably get like 3,500 people that actually qualify to serve as a juror. So is it you and your staff's responsibility kind of to go through the questionnaires and pare it down a little bit? And then we have a jury quick that takes care of all that.  And then they go about selecting jurors and they may ask questions of them what have you. So even if you get that notice to your point, you may ultimately never serve on the jury because either you're not selected. For some reason, you're weeded out or the case is settled. And there's no need for a jury. I would say that of all the cases that are scheduled, we have different we have pools of jurors. There's like 240 people's names that are in a jury pool. And then it's split up between four different panels of a panel of like 60 jurors. So that are and then they have maybe a list of eight scheduled court dates on your calendar when you get your court calendar. So on a Sunday evening is when it's there's a number on there that you need to call. And then the automated system will let you know when you need to report if you need to report. Or, you know, if they're if you know the trials are off or whatever. But I would say that of all the trial schedule, probably 14% of them actually go really that little right 14% actually Wow. So if you're looking forward to serving on jury duty, the odds are against you, which we do have people that really want to be on jury duty, right? So they want to know how they can get on jury duty. But obviously, you know, we, we aren't allowed to just put people on the jury panel. You have to go through the through the ropes. And it's really your civil duty to respond when you're selected. And employers need to be good about accommodating their, their staff to be sure that they're able to serve. Correct. Yeah, very good. Well, let me turn to Jennifer for a minute. We've, we've let you just stay out of the limelight for a second. Let's bring everything right back. You are the chief deputy. What's the responsibility of being the chief deputy to assist melody with anything that she needs. That's why she's so successful. That's right. I'm going to learn from her. I see. Learn from her. But then again, you've been with the department, as you said, for 26 years, right? Yes. So what have been some of your roles and responsibilities? I did start out as a filing clerk at our front window. And then I moved to the accounting department. That was my main responsibility over what? 12 years or so. Okay. And then for the last two years, I've been helping out with chapter 51 smiling because we had another clerk go to court. So I have spent a lot of time doing that, which took away from the procedures that I did like collection and department of revenue for the unpaid fines that people didn't pay. And chapter 51, you mentioned that what what's chapter 51? Mental commitments. Right. And there's a lot of time sometimes involved in that scheduling them with their scheduled out of the county or in the county. And then you also mentioned collecting fines. And I'll ask a couple of questions there and and turn it over to Roger. Well, let me just ask one because I don't want to steal Roger's thunder. Collecting fines is obviously one of the key responsibilities that your department has annually. You know, what kind of what are we talking about here? In fact, Melody, I think I forgot to ask you what's the department's annual budget? $2 million. So you've got a $2 million budget and you've got I think you said 24 staff. Correct. A lot going on that you're overseeing. And within these roles and responsibilities, one of them is collecting the fines, which we talked about earlier. Any feel for annually? How much you're collecting and fines? Roughly $2.9 million. $2.9 million. Okay. Well, with that set up, I'm going to turn it over to the chairman, Roger. Thank you. And great to have you both here and a lot of good things are happening in the court system, but it is a busy court system. And approximately how many cases would be heard or how many a year? You have any idea on that? Last year, we had about 13,700 cases filed in our department. 6,000 of those were traffic and ordinance cases.   And we talked a little bit about the fines that people have to pay and how many dollars get collected and how much of that do we keep? And does most of it really go to the state or they just make us be the bad guys and collect the money? The majority of the money goes to the state. Of that 2.9 million dollars I spoke of, we get to keep roughly 860,000 of that. And you said earlier that your total budget is 2 million. Correct. And you're collecting 2.9 million and you get to keep 860,000 of it. Correct. So that tells me, Mr. Chairman, that county taxpayers must be subsidizing the operations of this mandated program. That's right. But the state will tell you that the judges are state employees, they pay for that. And the DA, I believe all of those people in the DA's office are state employees also. And that's what they'll be arguing, that they're supporting quite a bit of that also. But not all of it. And we have to pick up quite a bit of the difference like that, too. And in some people, I know that the forfeitures and fines can be a problem. Are there ways that we can get money from, for instance, some of the prisoners are assessed, the jail assessment fee. And that is one way that we can collect something to help us pay for the jail and that. But that's one of the few ways that we are able to get the money back. Isn't that correct? Correct. And again, I appreciate all the good work you do. And there's a lot of things happening in the court system. And thank you both for doing your job very well. Thank you. I noticed she smiled the largest when you said the state gets to keep most of the money, don't they? And I wasn't sure if that was a smile of happiness or, yeah, that's how it works. It's very frustrating. Yeah. Yeah. Melody and her predecessor, Nantad, put together a really nice paper with the assistance of our finance director years ago, as you know, Roger, that outlined that here we have this hundred percent mandated program. I mean, this is a one-on-one lesson in government. The state essentially tells county government what they should do. And we have mandatory and discretionary programs. The court is really a hundred percent mandated. We have to provide these services, but the state doesn't provide the revenue to help pay for the operations. We do have the ability to collect these fines and forfeitures. As you heard earlier, what 2.9 million a year, yet we're not able to keep sufficient revenue to cover our costs. So the property taxpayer, you and I, pick up the difference. Chairman Distrudi is right on. The state obviously picks up other responsibilities as well, but the way it's supposed to work is if one level of government mandates to another level of government, you're supposed to do something. Generally, the dollar should follow through on how to do that, or it's an on mandate, it's an underfunded program. But in any regards, as Melody said, it can be a little frustrating, because when we have one-size-fits-all state-imposed property tax caps in place, it's difficult to give employees cost-living increases or health insurance increases or whatever it may be, because we're, it's challenging, it's challenging. But I digress. Let's get back to your department and what's and the good things that are going on. Back to the collections. Now I know you and your staff work really hard to collect these funds, but in some cases people just don't have the means to pay, right? Absolutely. And for years, I mean that builds up on the books. What's, what's the general trend there? Do you find that most people are able to pay, but it's, you know, what's, give us a little flavor for that challenge? Well, we work with people. We really try to. But, you know, with the economy over the last several years, you know, it hasn't been good for, you know, some of the defendants and, and finding jobs and keeping jobs. So, but we allow them to go on payment plans. We set up payment plans and we do try to, you know, collect the money. We send out reminder notices to people. We suspend driver's licenses. We suspend their DNR, DNR licenses. That would motivate me to pay so they can't hunt or fish until they pay. Yeah, I would imagine that would be effective. We also do tax intercepts and we send out commitments for criminal cases and if nothing else works, then we, we will use a collection agency as a final. As a final step. And again, and then there's some folks who just never pay. Correct. And those dollars are just never fulfilled and people aren't held accountable essentially for that, right? But our staff really tries hard to collect the money. Yeah, yeah. And you've got, let's talk about your staff for a little while. It seems to me you've just got some great staff. We do. Really experienced, hardworking. Very. I mean, we are very fortunate. Sheboygan County is very fortunate to have such good workers because they really work hard. There's a lot of paperwork that goes through our department and they're very knowledgeable about their jobs and they are, I don't know, I just can't say anything bad about them at all. They're just, it's great. And they're probably folks who don't get a lot of pats on the back because they're in positions where when you're collecting, you know, penalties, fines, forfeitures, you don't have necessarily happy customers at the front desk, right? Absolutely. Yeah, kind of like child support. I've always tipped my hat to those staff as well because that's tough. It's tough, yeah. Well, I'm glad you're surrounded by such a good team and I think it shows, as Roger said, Clerk of Court's office, I think, provides excellent service here. Five circuit court judges were lying on it. I've never heard a complaint from our judges about your good staff and it just seems like you continue to make good things happen, so thank you both for that. Thank you. As you mentioned earlier, technology's evolving so much.  What services are available online? What you mentioned, you can complete the jury applications online. The jury questionnaires online. You can pay your fines. You can pay directly online? Correct. Okay. Through the Shboygan County website, there's a tab on there where you can pay the fines directly or you can go directly to the Clerk of Court's department and there are several things on there. There's like abbreviation to small claims. There's divorce information on there, information about traffic. There's links on there to link you to the WCCA site where you also can go on there and pay your fees online or there's forms if you would need a small claims form or a motion. There's several I do or how do I do this? Nice. Opinions on there. And Mel is going to update the Shboygan County site because the WCCA site now has Visa and MasterCard in which it was just one. Okay. So she's in the process of that. Please. One thing that I know we've we've had some questions about and we've upgraded the technology part of it as you. Walk in the courthouse. It's such a big courthouse. There's five courts. People walk in where to go. Now we have a kiosk. Correct. That's really great when you walk in the courthouse in the front door. Maybe either of you can explain what buttons you can push and I believe there's quite a few choices that'll get you to the right place, isn't it? Yeah. There's I think you can either enter your name or case number and it just brings you right to the calendar. It'll point you to the judge that the court is held in. I think that's a choice. You know which judge it is. You don't know where it is or you know the case number and then you can help direct yourself to where you need to go, isn't it? So that's another point of technology that's helped quite a bit. It's an area we're trying to continue to improve based on some feedback you and I received within last year. In fact, Roger and I were in the front door and there was young lady looking to find some room or department and was struggling and Roger I think made the comment boy a key ask or something like that would be beneficial as well as as we've discussed that department heads as you know Melody getting some better signage in the building. It's such a beautiful building but if you've never been in it it can be a little intimidating and where do I go so... And we also are very fortunate to have that desk there where we have volunteers sitting there. Yes. You know it's good to see a lot of them are retirees from the county that work there. So they got a pretty good feel for things. Yeah that's a great point. So they direct people and that's really nice. Yeah it sure is. Any new programs or new initiatives that you're considering under your new leadership of the Clerk of Court's office? Well we would like to start e-filing soon and eventually we would like to go paperless. It's something we're working on. So when you say e-filing for example what does that mean? We'd like to... You can file documents by the computer. Okay so everything on the computer rather than having to come in at all or ever have to wait in the line. Correct. Very good. We have work towards this already. We've been scanning documents already for a year and a half. So I mean we're just waiting for a few more components that we need to to eventually go paperless. So the scanning the documents show the history of past occurrences or your scanning in forms? We're scanning in all documents that we would that we also would dock it into the actual court record. Gotcha. And then of course the judges need to support this going paperless and I've been involved in some of those discussions with the judges and I know that's a that's a big step. I think there you know they're coming around and I think it's really great because if you know you can just go on a case now and you can find the paperwork right on the computer. It's you can pull it up and it brings it up and you don't need to actually pull a file or if the file's not where it is you know if it's up by the judge or JA or wherever. Right. I mean you have it right at your fingertips. Right. So it's Well I know it can be done because chairman Distruty and the county board when paperless what's it been three four years now and there were some members of the board like our friend Dick Bemis who you know is a more senior board member and a few others who I don't think we're real enthusiastic and now we here consistently everyone really appreciates having all that information available at their fingertips and they don't have to cure around big binders or cut down a forest every meeting to distribute information so it's worked out pretty well. It's amazing. Yeah well that's a great initiative. I'm glad to hear that. Well thank you both for taking time to join us today. Melody it's I'm so pleased to have you as our new clerk of courts. I was pulling for you when you ran. I know you were running against one of your co-workers so I know we had two good people running but one of the things I appreciated about your campaign was you ran as an independent and in my opinion county government is largely independent. We don't spend the time that the state and federal government does with partisan issues. It's very non-partisan and I've always felt all of our elected department heads whether you're the clerk of courts or county clerk or treasurer why do these have to be partisan positions? You know frankly some would argue why are they even elected? They could be appointed department heads like the other but I admired you for running as an independent because sometimes folks are always pulling the D or always pulling the R and you did very well so it's good to have you with us and thank you for your nice overview today. Thank you very much. And Jennifer thank you for joining us. Thank you. It's great to see another face from the clerk of courts and thank you for your 26 years of service to Sheboygan County. Thank you. Pretty impressive pretty impressive and thank you for joining us if you have any questions about the clerk of courts office you want to talk to Melody or Jennifer and and follow up on something they shared or you have a suggestion for improvement don't hesitate to reach out to us. We do have a pretty nice county website where there's information there and how you can get a hold of these folks and if you're never sure you can always contact our county clerk's office or my office chairman Distruty's office and we'll get you the right telephone number and also if you have any suggestions for programs or services you'd like focused on in the future again don't hesitate to call us or your county board supervisor. Next month we're going to have our HR director here Jean Gallimore she's going to talk about this immense compensation study that the county board just passed and some really nice changes for county government took a lot of hard work and I know she's very proud of what all played out there so until then have a great summer thank you for joining us and we'll see you soon.


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Why Taiwan hasn't shut down its economy by Javier Caramez Sanchez and William Hong Song-Wong An audio Mises Weyer narrated by million Quinteros As the Austrian School of Economics demonstrates in the calculation theory of socialism No central planning body has the capacity to organize society based on coercive mandates The main reason is that the central planner is unable to obtain all the necessary information to organize society in this way, as information has subjective, creative, dispersed, and tacit qualities. This principle is fully applicable to the containment of a pandemic. Individual responsibility along with transparency of information are crucial to stopping a pandemic. Taiwan makes a very good case for how individualism and voluntary cooperation work effectively in resisting the coronavirus pandemic. Close to the Chinese mainland, but relatively few people infected. At the moment in Taiwan, the infection has been completely contained, despite being one of the countries with the highest risk of suffering a pandemic, given that the Republic of China or ROC is very close to the Chinese mainland, the People's Republic of China or PRC. Until January, there were flights between Taiwan's capital Taipei and the epicenter of Wuhan China. However, as of March 21, there were only 153 infected. At the same time that Europe, far away from the Chinese mainland, has more than 10,000 affected by the coronavirus. However, in Taiwan and other parts of Asia, including Singapore and Hong Kong, no massive mandatory quarantine or containment has been applied so far. How did Taiwan achieve this? Transparency The first cause of Taiwan's success is the transparency of information, which stopped the rapid growth of infection. The containment in Taiwan has been carried out with relatively high transparency. As early as December 31 of last year, the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan began to take serious the potential danger of the Wuhan pneumonia, informing citizens every day about the developing trends of the infection and its status. The information provided by the Taiwanese authority also includes whether they infected in Taiwan contracted the illness from overseas input, which helps people take measures to protect themselves in a timely manner. In the constant press conferences, the Taiwanese government provides different options and recommendation that people can choose to adopt voluntarily but are not imposed coercively. The abundant information provided continuously has allowed individuals to make their own informed and balanced decisions under conditions of uncertainty. In contrast, the governments of the European Union countries reacted slowly and as late as February did not provide sufficient information about the potential pandemic, making the situation difficult to handle. Voluntary decision making and cooperation among individuals in private sectors. The type of quarantines established by the Taiwanese government are mostly self-quarantines. The Taiwanese government acknowledges that it is crucial to rely on people's voluntary actions to resist the pandemic. As we have noted above, most cases of contagion in Taiwan come from outside and are almost always detected at the border. Taiwanese people's voluntary self-protection is effectively suppressing the spread of the coronavirus in their country and forced quarantines are usually for the most serious cases. For example, the infected Taiwanese evacuated from the Chinese mainland. One of the problems with the coronavirus has been maintaining a balance between economic activity and containing the infection. In this regard, different from what the southern European countries such as Italy and Spain do, the Taiwanese government's policy is not to take preventive measures to stop the outbreak by impeding economic activities. Taking the schools as an example, the beginning of the course was delayed for two weeks at first. Currently, school's policy is to take students, teachers and workers' temperatures. If fevers are detected, classes in that school are suspended, but massive class suspensions do not occur. At the same time, online teaching is being encouraged but is not being forced by the government. In many Taiwanese universities, online teaching is being promoted in order to let those who are not able to attend class in person to take courses. Although it is true that online education as a way to avoid infections has already been adopted in other countries, the peculiarity of Taiwan lies in the fact that it has not been imposed by government order. Not everyone is required to study online or telecommute, but there has been strong encouragement to do so. The government's transparency of information has also given the Taiwanese enterprises the time they need to voluntarily prepare and adopt teleworking progressively. Other countries instead suddenly shut many businesses down through mandatory government orders, as Spain did on March 13, without giving enterprises and their workers time to prepare for quarantine. The Taiwanese government is controlling the spread of the infection with flexible policies, which leave much room for individuals to take initiative and make their own decisions. Each individual can take the most appropriate measures for their own situation, having their own incentives to be cautious. Likewise, the fact that the Taiwanese citizens have been warned since the beginning of the infection has created a generalized awareness to make the necessary preparations and has given citizens enough time to assume that they must make changes in their lives in order to avoid being infected. This flexibility in containment and transparency policies has led to a high degree of individual responsibility. Proof of this is not only in the population's tendency to wear masks that the Taiwanese population, which can be observed in any means of communication, but also in the adoption of new ways of continuing daily activities so as to avoid contagion. Private sectors have also taken quick actions to protect their clients. Most residential buildings have at least one ethyl alcohol dispenser, so that everyone who enters can disinfect his or her hands. For example, ethyl alcohol has been available in Uber cars for several weeks. Conclusion To conclude with transparency and diligence, the Taiwanese government has avoided many problems. The key is that the Taiwanese government and the Taiwanese people understand that the individual's own responsibility and actions are essential to suppressing the coronavirus pandemic, not a mandatory massive shutdown. This is what the world needs to learn. For more content like this, visit Mises.org.


What's going on? This is Jordan, a modern-day muscle back at you with another video. This is your first time here Please, you know like, subscribe, or comment. I would greatly appreciate that. I'm gonna talk about some things that I'm gonna do to the car and I'm gonna show you a little burnout towards the end of the video, but currently right now My car is a little bit dirty I'm not sure How much of that is really getting on camera? But the point is is that it's a little bit dirty but It's been raining so much that I don't want to do like a full wash So I thought doing a waterless wash would be pretty good I'm just gonna Go to the store real quick and get some gloves because I'm out of gloves and I need an applicator to apply some tire shine to my tires because They're looking kind of dry As you can tell Well, can you tell? Hope that shows up, but yeah, they're kind of dry so you know, I'm gonna give you guys a little cold start and See you at the next stop. All right, just arrived at Walmart and yes, I parked super far away from everybody else Let's get this over with. I didn't get to wash the car yesterday. Yeah, today is the next day I'm gonna show you guys the waterless wash now and talk about the products that I use just a little bit and then After that, I'll get to showing you the burnout so I recommend moving your car into a Shaded area Because you don't want the Sun to you know beat down on it. I Get my products from a ammo NYC. I really like his new product called froth a or froth Ever since I'm focusing there we go So it's a waterless wash, right? So no water. So you would just You know, spray it down like that then Just wipe off like that I'm hoping this is getting on camera, but cleaning off the dirt Area and when you know when you're doing this, you don't want to like lean on the car You sort of just want to glide it off See some of the dirt. Not sure if you see that. I know there's other products out there like Adams polish or Carpro reset McGuire's which McGuire's I know is pretty popular.  What's worse? It's more of um You know what works for you Got some nasty bugs right there See if we can clean that up a little bit.  Let me know what a product you use and why Every time I say YouTube video on you know, what type of products people use You always get I use gone soap and it's hard to tell if the person is being completely serious or he's just trolling So I hope I don't get that but you never know Look at that so far It's pretty good. This is good to you know Get the dust and dirt grime and All whatever, you know street garbage you get on your rails but You're not really thoroughly cleaning your wheels Just making them look pretty again just for the weekend well in my case It's probably gonna rain tomorrow, so At least I'm just giving it a little touch-up instead of a full wash and wasting a whole bunch of product Look how much better that looks looks way better than that dry tire look This product is also from MLM YC. It's called mud tire Joe I personally recommend it and I'm not being Paid to rep and my NYC. I just really really like their products so don't think that I'm you know Getting paid to do this because I'm not and the nice thing about this is that you can add layers To the tire shine Beautiful, I mean like look at that Just absolutely gorgeous Look how shiny and That wet look all right guys. We're done washing the car Some of the future models that I want to do to the car. I want to tent my side markers I'm not gonna say which company I'm gonna order it from but that Real soon probably order by the time I upload this video other things I want to do the car I want to add you know some aesthetic things on the inside and Some more aesthetic things on the outside I don't want to give too much away because you know then all the content of being one video but Without further ado, let's get to that burnout


Hello everyone. Welcome to another NARC Survivor Live video. In this one, I am going to be talking about something quite different to what I usually discuss because I haven't really discussed this topic before and definitely not in this much detail, but I'm looking forward to discussing this one of how the narcissist is in fact haunted by their actions and the effects and the consequences of them the things that they did to you are not only to you but to many other people before you because wherever they go they leave a path of destruction they do so many things to people and you may have heard about it, maybe something in their family or something to do with an ex everyone they get involved with they always cause trouble they're very oppositional, very disagreeable and they just don't mind the destruction they like to cause pain, they like to cause harm but these actions also catch up with them it haunts them all of the things they do to you the reason why they deny they project, they blame shift they gaslight they use the double standard, the double bind and then they devalue you they discard you, they ghost you they triangulate you with someone else they isolate you, they try to control you they start a smear campaign against you the reason why they do all of these things it's because their actions are haunting them it's catching up to them and this is why they can never be alone it's why they're always surrounded by other people they've always got to have new supply it's why they start a smear campaign and enforce their flying monkeys because they just can't even imagine the thought of being left alone to their devices they don't mind confrontation they don't mind arguments and fights it gives them an opportunity to blame you but one thing they can't stand is being alone left alone with their thoughts that is one thing that a narcissist hates because of course when that happens they're left to think about all of their faults and mistakes everything that yes they know they did wrong I know they may pretend they may act like they don't know what they did they may act like it was all you it was your fault they know they know exactly who they are they know exactly what they've done to you they know that they're wrong for blaming you for falsely accusing spreading rumours and gossip and a smear campaign against you of course they're not completely delusional they do know that it's wrong and all of their actions it catches up to them you become like this ghost that haunts them and the reason why is because they didn't take accountability when they had the chance they didn't respond to the best of their ability they didn't make the right decisions if they had done that and they had brought the situation to a close to a resolve then it wouldn't haunt them it wouldn't play on their mind they wouldn't be constantly running around trying to find new supply they wouldn't go all out and pull out all the stops to try to control you and to start a smear campaign against you they wouldn't do all of that but this is why they do it everything they do is a distraction from reality these are all coping and defence mechanisms it's escapism and they love the thrill that it gives them it releases a hit of dopamine in their brains every time that they distract themselves from how things actually are in that moment they might think that they are happy but all it is is they are just distracting themselves from what they already know they have done wrong and yet they go off they find new supply they flaunt it in your face but if you knew they actually feel a lot of regret they know that they had a choice and they made the wrong decision that is why they go out of their way to flaunt the new supply in front of you and it's why they are so envious and jealous of you they end up looking so bitter and resentful and they are trying to project their envy and jealousy onto you because they are not completely stupid they are not completely delusional yes they do know they know that they made a big mistake they know that they did you wrong and that is why no matter what they just can't be alone it's not like how it is for us I mean yes the target the victim they may experience pathological loneliness especially following the discard because you were attached to this person maybe trauma bonded as well so it hurts in the beginning you may miss them you may think that you loved them you may not like being alone and you may doubt yourself your abilities and qualities you may think that you were not good enough you could have been better for them but that's only because of how they treated you they manipulated and abused you they gaslit you they made you doubt yourself but for them while you were with them you were propping up the false reality you were distracting them from these feelings that they have about themselves as a result of their wrongdoing and that medicated them in the moment but whether you discard them or they discard you when they lose that supply they've got to run off and find someone else and usually they already have someone else lined up but sometimes that isn't enough if they've done a lot of things to you they need to have the smear campaign as well they need to have all of their flying monkeys and enablers around them because it is haunting them and you may have seen it when you were with them any time that you confronted them any time that you didn't want to take responsibility for what they had done you could see the anxiety and stress brewing inside of them and it was really taking them down they were so mad so bitter but they had to project it onto you they had to deflect it because they can't deal with the shame and we've all done things wrong in our lives I know I have I've made some mistakes but I'm learning from it and I'm trying to be better and of course when I look back at my life I do feel shame I do feel some regret but I'm able to let it go because in most situations I did my best I responded to the best of my ability but for narcissists for one thing they never respond to the best of their ability they always deflect it or blame someone else but not only that the shame that we feel or the guilt as a result of our actions our wrongdoing in the past it is a hundred times worse for narcissists this is why they can't be alone this is why they set up these situations in the way that they do it's why they often end up stalking and harassing you they try to control you long after the relationship is over they have all of their flying monkeys and enablers it's all just to distract them from focusing on themselves because that is the last thing that they want to do they've got to have a scapegoat someone who they can put all of this on because otherwise they would lose their minds they would go insane it would drive them crazy and they may even become suicidal which is why they are never alone like myself I've had times in my life where I was completely alone there was one time where I took a few years out from relationships and dating at that time I didn't really have any close friends as well and even now I haven't had any relationships or anything this year I don't have any close friendships as well and I enjoy my alone time as you probably noticed in my videos I love going out into nature I love being around animals I love being on my own with my own thoughts but just look at the narcissist look at their past look at their life when have they ever been alone can you remember a time can you remember a moment when they even spend a day in their entire life alone or were they always surrounded by family and friends enablers and flying monkeys coworkers so how do they even know who they are because developing ourselves our identity that comes from being alone it does not come from being around other people and yet they spend all of their time around you they were suffocating you and they had all of their enablers and flying monkeys they always had to have new supply and that is how you know it's haunting them everything they did to you everything they did to everyone before you they can't deal with the shame and the pain and if they ever were alone they would probably go insane it would destroy them you would see a completely different side of them but as for me and I'm sure for you as well once you've spent some time out of the relationship you enjoy your alone time you enjoy nothing more than being alone and in fact you may even hate it I don't want to say hate but you dislike it when other people are always there they're distracting you they won't leave you alone to your own thoughts and so you can process your emotions because that's the true victim the survivor of the abuse that's all we want to do a lot of us we don't even want to be around them anymore we could just take off and live in a shack in the forest somewhere for some of us even thought maybe the rest of our lives but Narcissus just take a look at them take a look at their lives have they ever even spent just one day alone in their entire life where they could then reflect think about what they've done even begin to process any traumas or emotions that is something a Narcissist is never going to do and that is how you know that yes it is haunting them because if it wasn't bothering them then why can't they be alone why are they on you why won't they leave you alone why do they always need to have new supply why do they deny projects, blame chef, gas light use the double standard the double bind why do they use all of these meditative tactics why do they triangulate you why do they try to make you envious and jealous why do they isolate you why do they try to control you why do they have so many enablers fly monkeys why do they start a spear campaign why do they do all of these things when you look at it the purpose is very clear it is all to distract themselves to distract their minds because they don't ever want to look at themselves to see themselves as they actually are they don't ever want to be left alone with their own devices which is why they always have to be in contact with you they're always observing you they're always stalking you they're always harassing you or they've always got someone else on your case and they're always surrounded by enablers and flying monkeys they're never alone which is how you know or you should know that yes their actions, their wrongdoing which they are fully aware of it is catching up to them it's haunting them they're trying to escape their karma they're trying to distract themselves they're trying to escape but this is why they're always miserable because their happiness comes from within sorry I felt a little bit sick there I don't know what that was I think I'm okay now they have to distract themselves they have to distract their minds but by doing that they never feel happy they're always miserable because their happiness our happiness is supposed to come from within yet they're trying to get it from devaluing you discarding you, ghosting you punishing you doing all of these things to you trying to make you feel bad guilty wrong isolating you, controlling you smear campaigns they're trying to find something in doing that they're trying to find some form of emotional regulation but by doing all of these things it prevents them from ever experiencing true love happiness and joy they will never experience that because they're always distracting themselves from it or at least the process which if they were to go along with it they would then hopefully finally be able to experience it but of course they do not want to go through that it's too painful for them to be alone but this is what we have to do once we have been involved with narcissists we must take some time to heal to process our emotions and that is when you will rediscover your authenticity you will rediscover who you are from being alone and maybe even isolating yourself because knowing in this world can tell you who you are the narcissist can't do it I can't do it only you can find yourself and you will find that in solitude that is when you will discover who you are as long as you're around other people and you're living in this matrix you're never going to know who you are and sometimes it takes people a lifetime until they actually know themselves so if you're still young I definitely recommend taking some time out away from other people go to a rural area somewhere far away take some time to yourself but be prepared for pain be prepared to resolve your traumas because a lot of emotions will come up I know exactly what it's like I've experienced it many times before that isolation can be very difficult but it is also what allows you to heal so that is what I advise for you if you do want to discover yourself your true self not who society or the narcissist told you you were and when you find that you will find your true purpose in life you will know why you're here you will know what you're here for and everything will begin to make sense to you if you're not constantly surrounded by distractions because you've got to think of it like this it's distracting you from focusing on yourself so if you're not focusing on yourself how can you respond to yourself how can you even know who you are which is the same with the narcissist I mean just look at what they're doing constantly surrounded by supplies, enablers and flying monkeys they're never alone a lot of them engage in addictions alcohol mind altering drugs some of them are constantly partying clubbing have a one night stands all of this is just escapism it's all just a distraction a distraction from what ourselves and I've said it before that the most important relationship we will ever have is the relationship we have with ourselves no relationship will ever be more important than that and yet this is why we can't have relationships with narcissists we can't have anything with them and the reason why is because they don't even have a relationship with themselves they are detached from themselves they don't even know who they are so how can they even know who you are when they first target you they project this idealised image of themselves onto you and then when they devalue you they project everything that they hate about themselves so that's all that there is they never really knew you they never even took the time to get to know you because all they're focused on is the illusion, the fantasy they're focused on distracting themselves from reality and they're so determined in pursuing this distraction from self that they turn their supplies into an extension of them and even the enablers and the flying monkeys we're all just distractions extensions we're just these objects that exist to serve them because they don't ever want to look at themselves and yet that is in fact the first thing a person should do we should always look at ourselves but of course yes in fact that is something a narcissist will pretty much never do I mean as I've said before there are small windows of self-reflection and the disillusionment when you cause a narcissistic injury in that moment it's like you kind of see it in their eyes their eyes light up they widen maybe they go black they're kind of like this stare where they're just in a state of shock because you've disillusioned them in that moment you have destroyed the false reality the illusion so then they abandon it they abandon the false character and then they're forced to reflect on their underdeveloped true self so that is when you may see it that they self-reflect for a moment there's a small window when they do it but it never lasts for long it could last for a couple of seconds and then they instantly deflect it onto you they blame you they devalue you now everything is wrong with you and it's all over so that's really the best you'll ever get from them that's really as real as it gets with a narcissist just those couple of seconds where it feels like you have something real where you see something vulnerable something that you can save you can help, you can fix something that you can do something with and then in an instant it goes away it's gone that's what we live for and as soon as they self-reflect we already know what's coming after the disillusionment, after the injury of course then we see the rage they lash out at us they make us feel bad they make us self-loat they make us feel like something is wrong with us and we need to be better and that's just as good as it gets but yes their actions they're wrong doing it does haunt them it may not seem like it at times they can seem so cold so distant so detached so delusional but it does haunt them and that is why they can never be alone it's why the last thing they want is to be left alone to their own devices it's why they're always on your case it's why they always have other supplies it's why they triangulate you they gas like you they try to make you envious and jealous it's why they isolate you they try to control you and it's why they start smear campaigns as well it's why they do all of these things because it is haunting them and like I said none of us are perfect we've all made faults and mistakes in our lives and we feel bad about it we self-loathe we process it we respond to the best of our ability we try to make things better but that guilt and that shame that you feel for the narcissist it is a hundred times worse it is unimaginable for a normal person and yet we wonder why they do all of these crazy things we wonder why they can never be alone we wonder why they go to desperate lengths such extreme measures we wonder why they do all of these crazy things we wonder why they won't leave us alone there's no cut off point for the abuse they continue to harass us they're always there it's all because their actions and wrongdoing are haunting them and the last thing they want to do is to be alone to feel the shame so let that sink in especially for those of you who think that this narcissist is such a solid person they're so cold-hearted and emotionally distant that is the illusion that is the façade and beneath all of that they are very broken people which is why the last thing they want is to be alone you think it's bad for you and of course it is it has been bad for you but to the point where you don't want to be around them you can't stand the abuse the lies, the deception you think that is bad but in fact it's a million times worse for them the last thing they want is to be alone by themselves you think you don't enjoy their company they don't enjoy it as well that's why they're always coming after you it's why they can't leave you alone and yet a lot of us we don't realize it we think this person is so full of themselves they love themselves when in actuality they can't stand themselves this is why they say misery loves company it's why they can never be alone they've always got to be around other people I've said it before they are addicted to people but again it's never to give anything to them as I'm sure a lot of you have learned by now all they do is take and they take to distract themselves from going within from thinking, from feeling they are completely detached and they are always going to be like that this is not something where you can just show them this video you can tell them about it you can reveal to them their problem that they can't be alone that's not going to solve anything you cannot pull them out of it they will not snap out of it if anything it might even make them even worse it might just drive them even deeper into the illusion and the coping mechanisms they're already down the rabbit hole and they can't get themselves out of it and there is really nothing you can tell them or bring to them they're just going to continue going deeper and deeper and deeper into the illusion driving themselves even more insane in the process because that's the only thing they can do it's either out or it's in and the last thing they want is to go out because by going out they have to deal with all of the pain and emotions all of the guilt and the shame so they're ready to dive in head first they want to see how far it goes because it's an escape from the shame but at the same time it's also an addiction it's something that they can't let go because they need it to survive emotionally but yes that's my message as I said it's not something I've really talked about before I don't think I have ever discussed how a narcissist's actions end up haunting them and how they have all of these ghosts from the past but looking at it we've got 178 live viewers so this is quite a popular topic it seems maybe something that I will discuss again but I hope you enjoyed my little deep dive into it I was just thinking about it for a moment before I recorded this and at first I was thinking do a narcissist feel haunted by the things that they do in the past and at first I had to think about it but then I made the connection of how they are shame based people and they do everything they can all of their actions are just a dodge reflecting on their shame so by making that connection I realized that yes of course they are constantly and persistently haunted by their actions and wrongdoings and of course as I've said before they know exactly what they're doing they understand the effects it has on you and they try to dodge the shame by engaging in all of these tactics these coping and defence mechanisms all of these things that they do all of these things that they do to you all of the lies, the revelation the triangulation all of these people these enablers and flying monkeys the entire thing it's all a charade it's all just one big show and their show they're not only the stars of it but they are also the audience and they act as the audience as well to distract themselves from themselves and that is all they're ever going to do they're going to continue doing that for the rest of their lives they are never going to let it go they will always be that way the majority of them will never develop any self-reflection only in that small window other than that they will never reflect they will never look within themselves they will manipulate you they will give you the illusion the false characters they will lie to you they will future fake they will come back with fake apologies false epiphanies telling you that they've changed but it's all a lie they can't change, they won't change they will always be the same and the longer they got around them the abuse will escalate the delusions the fantasies will get even worse as they dive deeper into the rabbit hole because as I said they can either go in or out and they are not going to go out going out of it means that they're going to be faced with their emotional pain their feelings of guilt and shame from their past wrongdoings so that is never going to happen they are never going to pull out of it they're only going to go even deeper and deeper so yes that's it, that's my message they are haunted by their actions their past wrongdoing that is the reason why they will continue to abuse and harass you it's the reason why they can't leave you alone and it's the reason why they can never be alone so that's it that's your answer and I hope it brings you comfort in knowing from my description that yes this happens to them and I do believe that it is their karma and the right thing for us to do is maybe just to leave them alone I mean it doesn't mean that they're ever really going to be alone narcissists are very charming and charismatic they always have their flying monkeys their enablers other supplies but it's just best for you to get away from it because otherwise it will consume you it will take over you and it will destroy you along with them so just stay out of the way don't get caught up in their disorder don't let it become a part of you where you're in denial you're becoming delusional don't let that happen to you but yes that is the message for today 175 live viewers if this was helpful for you please do give it a thumbs up down below it helps to support our community let me know your thoughts in the comments section I will be reading your comments in the morning it is night here now share and subscribe and if you'd like to book a one-on-coaching session with me you can book that on my website it's narksurvivor.co.uk and check out my instagram as well narksurvivor youtube and instagram I do have new pictures and videos on my travels which I upload every day on there so yes that's it that's the message I hope it was helpful and I will talk to you in another one very soon


I'm sort of taking us into the 17th century. I hope that's okay. I realize we've been definitely kind of slowly drawing our way here eventually throughout the day. And I probably should say just to begin that this is very much a work in progress project. It's part of a larger postdoctoral project on political pots and thinking about ceramics and reading them as historical texts, working from 1600 to about 1850 or so. I'm really delighted to be in such a knowledgeable audience and looking forward to your feedback. Undoubtedly, the 17th century in England bore witness to a changing world with a rise in print culture, increasing literacy rates. And as people like Joan first and Sarah panel and others have discussed, a growing domestic consumer market amongst the middling classes and people of the lower gentry. This is all of course set very much against a changing political landscape the violent upheaval caused by the civil wars to the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the subsequent restoration of the monarchy in 1660. And of course, unnaturally, such events had a significant impact on material and visual culture and especially on the novel new industry of Delftware ceramics production in London. And that's really the subject of my discussion today. From pro-monarchists and treasonous dishes showing Charles first in his meal airs, men in Southwark in the early 1650s to demonstrate the longevity of domestic power to cups mass produced and consumed following the restoration of Charles II declaring political allegiance and loyalty. Kind of ceramics play this very key role in this wider dissemination of monarchial power structures at this time. Often based on print culture, these objects raised questions regarding the intermedial nature of ceramics production, representations of history and the performative nature of the political experience during this time. And such interchange between media as someone like Mark Hallett has rightly stated might be said to be one of the most defining characteristics of the 17th century across British art, architecture and design but ceramics have really been marginalized within this conversation up until this point. So this is sort of bringing them to the forefront of the historical conversation the historical landscape. So instead this paper is very much arguing that ceramics embody a particular currency as historical agents producing meaning and constructing narratives of monarchial political rhetoric. Imbued with agency, it asks what type of role these ceramics played within the visual material and haptic quotidian political experience. And quite often these objects were displayed proudly or perhaps we'll see covertly in interiors yet as objects of use and haptic engagement they also played crucial roles in the performative nature of loyalist toasts and households and taverns perhaps amongst friends or amongst larger gatherings. So this paper really unpacks high potters and consumer markets responded to unpredictable moments of sociopolitical change through such material culture. It argues for ceramics to be understood as historical agents shaping sociopolitical conversation burgeoning constructions of history and loyalist ideologies leaving a lasting historical and material legacy in the political consciousness of mid 17th century England. And I just couldn't resist putting up this particular image as one of our displays at the V&A in the British galleries and obviously the mug in the center of Charles and Diana was not created in the mid 17th century as sort of a curatorial play for the visitor the eager eyed visitor I suppose. But I think it does say something about this tradition of commemorative objects still happening today kind of becoming very ubiquitous and something we assume but actually really trying to interrogate how did the start and why and what did it actually mean at that point as well. So this kind of commemoration on pots very much survives. Most of the wares that I'm going to be showing are earthen wares so the type known as delft ware which is essentially decoration painted onto a white tin glaze and delft ware was really the first ceramic material I would argue that was used for propaganda purposes as well as commemorative purposes documenting both public opinions and private loyalties. And the majority of the ones I'm looking at today were most likely produced in London a couple produced in Bristol but London is really the main production for these objects at this point. And in London local clay was mixed with a clay which had a higher calcium carbonate content and that was coming and being brought into the angular and also from Carrick Fergus and the clay was essentially dissolved into sort of water filled tanks and you can see these here on the screen and it became this kind of soupy mixture not very appealing for Saturday afternoon but then it was essentially strained into a shallow drying tank so that would actually make the water evaporate. The clay was then trodden on and that would completely remove air bubbles and then it would have been thrown onto a wheel although sometimes molds were used and essentially we have a kind of unglazed biscuit vessel that was ready for decoration it was first dipped into a tin white glaze which was a sort of a mixture of tin oxide and lead oxide and it was decorated and after this it was then fired. The London Delftware industry then was really still very much in its infancy in the 1640s when war broke out between King and Parliament and of course as we know 1649 Charles I was executed and ruled without King is established in England. As a sort of shift with this royalist supporters were obliged very much to surrender their silver tablewares under threat of penalties and inspections that were being carried out and quite a lot of key players at this point and especially city livery companies were forced to dispose of their treasures and quite a lot of these were then replaced with wood but mostly with Delftware. So it's probable that something like this which is very, very early Delftware candlestick based directly on a silver example made in 1648 which was owned by the Fishmongers Company would have suffered the similar kind of fate of having been sold. They'd had silver so they're buying something else and adding their own arms to it at this point. So the success of the Delftware industry at this point really coincides with an overall growth and pottery use for various reasons and that sort of shifts towards these commemorative wares that we begin to see. As Delftware could be produced on a fairly large scale it was also easily painted and frequently painted kind of the painting that goes through it is likened to watercolor because you had to do it so, so quickly before it dried though quite a kind of ordered labor process going on. So it was really the perfect material for showcasing private and public loyalties. This charger which is dated 1653 is a really fascinating example of this kind of early commemorative wear and it shows a full length striking I think full length portrait of Charles I and his three male heirs. So Prince Charles, Prince James and Henry Duke of Gloucester and for supporters of the British monarchy the preservation and longevity of the dynasty was incredibly important. So this is met four years after his execution and of course the very year that the Commonwealth was met Lord Protector. So it very much as a piece demonstrates continuing sympathies during the Commonwealth period for the monarchy. And if you can just eager eyes of you spot the initials at the very top which has the date 1653 and then above it I had an A, T, E and those initials were probably of a newly married couple with royalist sympathies who are actually commissioning this piece to be met to kind of mark their coming together. And I think it's difficult in many ways not to think that owning such a dish in London in 1653 would not have been seen or potentially seen as a treasonous act possibly punishable with severe penalties. And I think that really confirms the loyalty of whoever is commissioning these pieces but it also brings up very interesting questions about the methods of production of design or how specific pieces like this were actually commissioned and then secretly produced and kind of how that was the kind of a process of having between Delftware maker to buyer essentially. And of course, one of the key events in the history of English Civil War was the story of Charles II as a prince in 1651 hiding in the Oak Tree. And in the British galleries of the V&A there exists this remarkable tingly of birth and where plaque dating from 1660 are there but depicting Charles II surrounded by the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland in the very branches of the gospel Oak Tree. Probably again, this is made in London and it's very much based on an engraving by Peter Stent and it's commemorating Charles and kind of one of the most key historical and political moments of the 17th century. And as we all know, Charles' escape from the parliamentary troops following the Battle of Worcester in 1651 was a story that he liked very much frequently to recount over the years from the writings of Samuel Pease to paintings and prints of the day reinforcing a political, textual and visual agenda whereby Charles II could become the people's king. At three o'clock in the morning of 4th September 1651 of course, a party of 60 royalist soldiers rode quietly up the gates of an old converted fiery the white ladies right on the border of Shopshire an area run by a farming family called the Pendrels of the Stark. We know that they kind of passed and noticed through miles and miles of countryside and among them of course was I think 2021 at this point, Charles I and at the white ladies, his coat and his britches apparently were removed. He was dressed in country clothes and kind of an old hat and kind of apparently had his long royal locks cut short and the king's account depicted sort of 30 years later to Samuel Pease records the decision and he says, Pease writes he told me that it would be very dangerous either to stay in the house or go into the wood there being a great wood hard by Bosqueville and he knew but one way hard to pass all the next day and that was to get up into a great oak in a pretty plain place where we could see round about us so they would certainly search all the wood for people that had made their escape. We got up into the great oak that had been locked some three or four years before and so it was grown out very bushy and thick not to be seen through and there we sat all the day and the next day the Pendrell brothers escort the king secretly away and we know of course that Charles II loved to tell this story and he commissioned a set of paintings to show the key moments of this adventure when he returns. I'm showing you one of these here in the 1660s and interestingly enough with all of these paintings Charles is not shown at the age in which he would have been when the events are taken place but he's shown at the age he is when he commissions them was quite an interesting visual trope happening here. So this is the third of the set of five scenes that he has created for this kind of traumatic escape following his defeat. As Scottish artist Roy and Katrina Murray has noted the stewards persistently promote a dynastic and domestic images to reinforce royal authority and I think something that's quite interesting I'm very interested in is with the materiality of ceramics is that a particular means through which to disseminate the this and this kind of particular form of image making to the public on a much larger scale? So what can we actually see in the tingly as earth and where a plaque? Well, we've got the head of Charles II surrounded by these primes and we've sort of flanked by two smaller trees and bearing the scroll with the words of the royal oak and painted in different colors of manganese and purple yellow and green and this sort of running scroll around the border and I guess adding another literal and figurative layer to the ceramic object is the fact that it's set into a wooden frame supposedly made from the at the bark of an oak tree which legend has it came directly from the royal oak tree itself. As someone like Susan Stewart would see it such materiality produces its meaning as a souvenir yet I would suggest that we can also read these types of objects as democratizing perhaps this experience and our interaction with political culture and historical records with such an object. The act of inserting this plaque into the bark suggests that it was worth preserving and we know that there was quite a well counted for tradition of taking wood from the tree as a souvenir a sort of tourist carving out pieces an act of claiming their stick in this metaphorical symbol of world British history and the cultural significance of such a piece demands further scrutiny and actually what's been quite interesting in researching for this talk I've just discovered another one of these in a private collection but it's been recorded I wasn't able to show you an image that's very, very excited by that. And I should say with this particular example because of the provenance of the piece a game which I sadly can't disclose it does there are, you know, there are shifts coming that it was inserted into the plaque in the 1660s whether it was that exact bark will we ever know it was a bark from a tree nearby on the land which do both graphically from where this piece comes from would suggest that it might be so it's quite, yeah, sort of watch the space like those. So to what extent does such a commemorative piece reinforce royal power and authority? Well, I think in many ways it certainly helped make someone like Charles the second people's king and it certainly helped record one of the best known stories of history from this period. And again, this idea of setting the plaque into the original tree of where this event supposedly take place is this kind of showing this object as a literal tangible example of history and I find that quite interesting. And once again, just like in the portraits and in the paintings, Charles is depicted in the ceramic as a sort of much older man again, quite interesting here. Of course, 1660 saw the restoration of Charles the second. Cromwell had died a couple of years before that and there was this desire to bring back or presumably a desire to, we think to decide to bring back more stability and order but not always necessarily the case with this decision but it very much is restoration was seen as a momentous occasion. Lots of ballads, popular royalist songs which sort of greeted and commemorated this event. Notably, Thomas Blout wrote and published several key histories from the Civil War including Boscobal, the history of his sacred majesties which was published in 1660. And we know that Edward Hyde, the first royal of Plarendon wrote the history of the rebellion which was written in the 1640s but actually wasn't published until much later. But despite this, of course, it's important to remember that according to people and David Cressy who's done a lot of work on this that in the 17th century, only about 30% of men and probably about 10% of women were literate. So still quite, you know, really relatively low numbers. The visual culture, material culture and oral news and things like ballads were incredibly important in terms of disseminating information to the masses. The increase in visual and material culture which commemorated Charles's restoration then was incredibly important too as it suggested an increasing demand for objects that could show political allegiance for the king. And it was really the Delftware factories that came to the front and sort of supply this rising consumer market. But of course we have to remember that these were highly decorative, brightly colored goods that could have been hung on the wall to decorate your home or put onto cabinets. But quite a few of them are colorful little mugs like this one painted with rather schematic portraits of Charles II. And I think these are really among the earliest commemorative British wares and they were really meant as much for display I think as for use. So here we see a bust of, here we see a bust portrait of Charles II under a sort of triumphal arch and sort of dull, you know, blues or gray yellow. I inscribed CRX with a sort of white interior in the background. And vessels like this are normally called coddle cups which refers to a medicinal drink known from medieval times onwards. And undoubtedly ceramics cups like these become very popular mediums for royal portraits. So we have cups and bottles and they were used widely not only in the domestic home, but also in taverns. And as such, their visual decoration really has the potential to reinforce the position of the crown by declaring the user's loyalty. And I think the key thing with something like this is that they would have been used. A person's haptic engagement with the object as they held it in their hands or poured from it or drank with it or perhaps even toasted with it meant that these objects took part in a sort of form of social performance. Users or owners had the opportunity to hold a piece of history in their hands and perhaps such images even started conversations or rather debates or arguments amongst friends. And it's likely that such objects played a key roles in establishing networks of gift exchange as well through material culture. So what was the level of production of these types of words? Like, well, such mugs we know normally were never included in inventories of Delft factories or London pottery. So there's a slight kind of issue in terms of getting theater of how many were created and produced but they must have formed a minute proportion of their significant proportion of their outputs. They would have been cheap to buy yet their decoration would have been sure that they were probably seldom used. So a huge number have really survived intact in greater numbers than we would expect. And I think that in further material and survival says a lot. It's also important to note with this one and one like this that such images were very fast shelf very quickly and it would have been quite a formulaic process of production as these images were repeated and repeated and repeated often with kind of varying detail as you might see. Of course, here we have a composition very similar to the dish I showed earlier but this time in the same sort of architectural space but this time we've got Charles II on this one here holding his scepter and globe standing between columns under an arch on a tachythor and they've got these lovely kind of tops with the canvas leaves. And that happens quite a lot. You get these delftware portraits of Charles II often in ceremonial robes probably derived from published images like this one I'm showing you and this is a particular line engraving by William Fairthorne from the early 1660s and it's not the National Portrait Gallery and it shares several similarities especially in terms of the design of the crown but the shape of the scepter and as well as the gold medallion around the neck as well. But what we have I think with the delft paste course seems obvious to say but it's worth saying is the introduction of color and I think that does really transform the design it brings kind of vibrancy to the story into the kind of historical moment as well. And similarly iconography from this printed etching which is now at the British Museum was kind of translated into a lot of delftware pieces. We've got an image of Charles this kind of being led to parliament wearing his crown and holding his orb and scepter and riding through a procession in London and if you just look closely enough you can see the sort of sign of the royal oak or the kind of tavern that he's passing by. I would always love that detail. And several prints exist of course which record Charles's coronation when he's possessing through the city of London but it's more likely this one is actually him riding to kind of a state opening of parliament he's already been crowned at this point. He's already wearing everything but several of these sort of key motifs and prints like this end up on existing ceramic pieces during the time. So I'm just going to show you very lastly the last couple of minutes just a couple of these. So we've got some jugs would have predominantly been used for gale but also perhaps for water. And so we've got the back of the jugs are two sort of panels enclosing in a ship with trees on one side and a sort of twisted rope. And on the other we've got a sort of central reserve of a sort of bull torso portrait of Charles II holding an aseptor in his right hand and orb in his left and just kind of blow up close so you can see that a bit closer. And of course the regalia, regalia med for Charles II coronation in 1661 forms the central part of the crown jewels today but they had been completely destroyed during the Commonwealth and so the king actually had to commission new pieces to be made when he returns and done by the royal goldsmith Robert Feiner. So you can see the sector which he's holding in this on the image of this jug representing of course the sovereign's kind of spiritual rule and you also have the sovereign's orb as a symbol of godly power on earth with cross above it. So once again it becomes clear that the desire to mark and celebrate a historic moment of the restoration of the monarch infiltrated into the market, Delftwares and encourage a large market of commemorative pieces. But here with this royal kind of all of his royal pieces together the image very much confirms Charles's right to rule his right to the throne, but we also have and hopefully you can see just the right hand side again some initials for SB which is most likely referencing again whoever commissioned this particular piece of the original owner of this piece determined to show their loyalty to the king and through such objects furthermore we're kind of emphasizing the monarchial image making of this time through the ceramic material medium. So in conclusion, during this period as we have seen there was a proliferation of decorative and useful ceramic wares that were made by several factories and most of which were in London producing gild dine images based on well-publicized historical moments produced very much quickly in years following the key historical events which they depicted they were also seeking to commemorate key moments in British history whilst also allowing the user to demonstrate their political and often monarchial allegiance. Often these ceramics used gave the opportunity to the users holding the mugs at a jug to actually kind of look at them up close and in their hands and bring these scaled on images closer to their eyes. So they invited a very different kind of political engagement and representation in comparison to textual forms of print in a historical moment when many were still not literate and they also acted as decorative colorful items in displays or writing up domestic interiors and taverns, et cetera. And through songs, toasts, or ballads many may have acted as key agents in a performative ritual of political sovereignty. Ceramics then as visual and material objects had the potential to play a key role in the broader understanding of domestic power during the 17th century in Britain. And how this was essentially disseminated through a broader range of social classes. And I think we only need to look at a handful of these pieces from this era to see the role that ceramic squares were playing in recording, making and commemorating history during this time. And today I think they allow us to imagine the past even just a bit more vividly. Thank you.