So we know that twilight has been studying gravity spells And she's pretty proficient at them a pretty fundamental force of the universe. Mm-hmm. How come time spells are so much harder? Well, she did one though Uh, but not very well. She could barely do these time-based aging Feed-up slowdown spells the one time she transported herself in time to give a message Which was different from aging an object or a pony within one timeline She's like moving an object to a different timeline versus Shifting an object inside well, okay when you're not the aging spell is not a time related spell, right? What it is is you're modifying a pony. It's a biological modification spell which she's been practicing right like turning But she was turning apples into oranges. She was doing it on fruits and birds small animals turning them into fruits But to modify like, you know, and I guess she can make things bigger and smaller I think she's done that right but to You know and move things around but to biologically modify the genetic engineering spell. It's not a Uh a time traveling spell. Yep, but it so if it was a time traveling spell she could go And bring like, you know Grown-up apple bloom suddenly poof can come back in time and tell young apple bloom Well, you could argue that a cutie mark. They're two different sides of time manipulation It's just which timeline you're actually manipulated the timeline of an object or the timeline of the space around the object But we the thing is this important is everybody who knows magic seems to be aware that Age magic is only for the highest level unicorns An age spell But how could you do an age spell? That's only for the highest level unicorns now Correct me if i'm wrong genetic engineering is tough. Does it not appear that both celestia and luna are immortal? That they at least we've seen celestia has been around for a long thousands of years Yeah, you think maybe they're using these age spell on themselves to keep themselves young so they don't so is it that these are difficult? Or that they are forbidden I don't think they're forbidden right because celestia didn't get pissed off and are rest tricksy for using them or she didn't know And if twilight learned them, she wouldn't be like, you know Well, she's grooming twilight to take over. I'm just saying is like if someone learned one It doesn't seem that they would be in trouble, right?  That's awesome, right? That's the you know twilight wasn't like that's forbidden. She was like That's only the highest level unicorns would be able to do that Well only for the highest level unicorns is what she said. I believe yeah I Maybe it's forbidden in the sense that the the spell books describing this stuff are just not commonly available Yeah, I think it's it's just that it's hard to do and only the highest level unicorn would be able to do it Right or someone who just has an amulet But twilight wasn't able to do a little bit she got that flower to almost regress about an hour Was she or was she maybe she thought she was getting it to but she was actually just squishing it And it that's why it would pop right or maybe she was sending it slightly back in time to evening when it was closed Who knows what she was doing? Well, we do know she was doing is also lamenting the fact that she couldn't get spiked to teleport a letter back Yeah, if it was forbidden and she was not the highest level unicorn And she was not the highest level unicorn. She wouldn't have tried to do it knowing that it was forbidden She might have anyway in a dire situation I mean she broke the rule to save the crystal empire in the test and that turned out to be the right thing to do I wish it had been me who ultimately made it so But it wasn't twilight as I understand it Spike brought princess cadence the crystal heart because you weren't sure how quickly you could find a way to escape the tower You weren't willing to risk the future of the citizens of the crystal empire in an effort to guarantee your own Far better that I have a student who understands the meaning of self-sacrifice than one who only looks out for her own best interests Maybe now she has been trained to always break rules. Yeah I don't think so All right, so But get back to this she was lamenting that she couldn't get spiked to send a letter back to the princess to get help from sattel arabia Why not Spike was there. They could talk through the glass jar because okay, so if spikes, you know fire breathing teleporting is teleporting We assume it gets it's similar to twilight's teleporting, which is the number one spell The thing is it doesn't seem to require like it always gets to celestia not knowing where she is at the time I think that's what spike does. I think spike can send it where he wants I don't think he can I still think that spike is a special dragon because he was the egg They used as the test to see if someone was gene gray or not. Yeah We don't know how spike went from being born to having that ability with his fire I really think that specific ability is something that the princess sort of engineered in with some sort of technique into spike that could be Uh, but anyway, so why didn't you say it's still some sort of celestia It's still some sort of teleporting if teleporting was going to work through the glass dome Twilight could have teleported her as back into pony though We don't know that she or teleported spike out And then had him send the message and even if Trixie was just gonna kick her out of town immediately again She still could have gotten in or out of town really quickly Had spike send the message or spike could have sent the message on his fucking own No, because we know that spike isn't actually that good if a reader or a writer That we are on the precipice of disaster hold on pressure pressure Threshold that is about to happen Except he does all the writing for everybody. Yeah, he takes dictation And he has trouble with that sometimes he wrote a letter to the princess ones Yeah, but he clearly needs some assistance. How come none of the other ponies were like, why don't we ask Celestia for help? They never asked Celestia for help, but it's so weird, right? Is think about this, you know, we're sitting here and we have problems in this world But you know, we don't say hey obama. We need help No, is it mad rim? You couldn't get to the grocery store yesterday. There was a it was a mugger Why didn't you call obama for help? That's the same reason they don't call Celestia for help.   I would call 911. That's effectively calling obama. No, it's not that's calling the cops down the street So are there cops? I've never other than the royal guard. I've never seen like magistrates We've never seen anyone else enforcing the law. No judges. No one did anything when uh, no lawyers. Gilda was stealing No one did anything.  You know what I might because I know that Celestia appears to be very forgiving and willing to help people out And you know where the prison is the moon. That's why I don't say it That's why you don't see any prisons or anything Everyone's looking at it all the time every night. Watch the fuck out So Trixie uh was somewhat unnerved that twilight was able to cast an age spell But apparently duplication spells are also difficult because when that's also genetic engineering you're creating life As an aside, did you notice that look that rainbow dash and fluttershy gave each other when they were looking at each other dressed up as rainbow dash They were two rainbow dash looks one was the oh, yeah look and one was the other look the other look They were both classic a plus rainbow dash looks so fluttershy was doing her rainbow dash impersonation either no matter Which one she was I imagine fluttershy practices that in the mirror Maybe So We talked before how because there's been no reference to the multiple pinkie pies I think we can assume that the real pinkie pie is trapped in the mirror world forever So the pinkie pie that happened here The fact that oh that was just pinkie pie and she was playing those 10 instruments despite not having a mouth What about the pony with the 10 instruments? That's not magic.  I think twilight just knows Where the pear sprites are because she you know got rid of them. She grabbed one She grabbed one teleported it in which seemed very much less how to do She summoned the pear sprite either brought it in from wherever it was Or created one and she could create one because it wasn't uh a duplicate It wasn't as complex as creating a pony though when uh the second one appeared she kind of remembered Oh, right pear sprites, but she was able to just get rid of them like poof Did she send them back or did she destroy them? Ah And if she whatever she did could she not have done it the first time the pear sprite showed up Or is it because her magic has power has increased so much and now she has that ability because everyone is good Everyone has been going on about how much better her magic is now. She's been improving She's been training under celestia. She you know saved the crystal She's moved on to the next level of magic so that must include the summoning of the pear sprites But apparently is still at least one level below Age spells and duplication spells and such and such yep Now we still I mean trixie clearly didn't think her clever plan through him And she covered the whole place Well, she didn't think of the plan her plan was get magic item to be more powerful than twilight and then Go crazy because magic item corrupts her But wouldn't it be faster if we had some Age and powerful trixie doesn't trust wheels now pull faster Hypatologist snaps she's getting weirder and weirder And then corrupt magic items started to the rest right she didn't do the rest But that's why she was sorry I've been doing this one every time someone made a force field it was a force field This one was just a summoned glass jar I don't think it was blocking teleportation I don't know plus did you notice how trixie was able to detect that someone was interfering with it right So when the beavers are smacking at it she knew the same way that we know like if someone touches You know a fence on the border right they have sensors in the control room You can see which part of the fence got hit Yep, you know she knew that the beat someone was out there messing with it and she went out So it wasn't just a glass And it was definitely magic It might have been glamour It was glass but then with a glamour to tell her if someone fucked with it Maybe but it's like Uh, you know people leave and enter Ponyville, right?  What about the train the trains the train crash into the side of this thing Yeah, why didn't the cows like stampede and smash maybe they did everything outside is in chaos Because there was no one to manage it


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Well, everyone, thank you for joining us and once again, I'm sorry for delay, I'm sorry. The computer that rebooted on me and took forever to go through the process of getting me back online. So we are here for the time manager search forum and it's an opportunity for you to tell us what you would like to have some qualities that you'd like to see in our next time time manager. And so with us tonight is my colleague, Steve DeCorsi and Bernie Lentzman is our consultant. So we're going to turn it over to Bernie now. Great. Well, thank you and I certainly, I can certainly understand the technical issues. It always seems to happen at the worst possible time that computers do what they do. So I'm glad we got that resolved and happy to be here tonight with everyone. So Len, thank you, thank you for the introduction. You know, as was pointed out, our goal here tonight is to hear from the residents and other stakeholders that may be in attendance on the qualities that you think we should be looking for as we conduct the search for a new Arlington town manager and what the issues are facing the town of Arlington. I thought just by way of introduction, I'd talk a little bit about who community paradigm is so that you have some hopefully some level of confidence in the the the work that we are going to be doing, we have been doing and are going to be doing on behalf of the town of Arlington to get you the best possible town manager out there for the town. You know, Arlington certainly community really is a leader in so many different ways. So it's very gratifying opportunity to to work with you and to be here tonight to to talk about what the residents are looking for in the next town manager. Community paradigm was formed roughly eight years ago, coming up almost on nine by me. I was my background is in municipal government. I was a town manager at Chelmsted for about 20 years and the city manager Blowl for almost eight years. And when I made the decision to leave my position as city manager, I wanted to keep my hand in municipal government. Municipal government, I think is really the place where the rubber really hits the road in terms of delivery of services to people that depend upon government for such essential services that, you know, and really make an impact on people's lives. So I wanted to stay involved and we we created this organization, this firm have made up of a variety of associates that work have worked with municipal government or in municipal government. And one of the areas that was of particularly significance to us was the fact that so many communities were going through a process of finding new town managers. There's been a generational shift that's happened in municipalities across the Commonwealth and across the country. Here in Massachusetts, roughly two thirds of the communities have turned over, changed their town managers over the last five or six years. Mostly generational retirements and then the resulting churn that happens as one position becomes vacant, another one. Someone moves into that and another one, another position becomes available. And it's really led to a very competitive market in the municipal management world, as you can expect. On top of that, certainly over the last couple of years, with the great resignation that we've seen that sort of came out of the pandemic, we've seen a whole host of other vacancies that have occurred as people have made the decision to leave the municipal workforce. So we now have conducted over 90 or approximately 90 searches for town managers and town administrators in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over the last nine, probably actually more like seven years. We're going to get right into this right away. And so we've been very active with the most active municipal executive search firm in the Commonwealth. And so we're very happy to be part of the Arlington search because Arlington has always been one of the leaders in the world of professional municipal government and we're thrilled to be here tonight to continue on in helping a community find its next chief administrative officer. Our goal tonight is basically to hear from you because we think it's been a tenet of ours since we started this several years back to offer up or to recognize the importance of community and citizen engagement in the process. And we always offer this to communities and some communities make the decision to move forward without citizen input. But when we raise this to the board in Arlington, it was a very quick determination that people wanted to hear from what the citizens are looking for, what the residents believe are the issues facing the town. And so our goal here tonight is really to, one, look to the future, not the past. What we were looking for is from you, is an understanding of what you are looking for from the next town manager, what you believe the issues and challenges are that are out there that we should be looking for when we look for a town manager for you. What are the top priorities, the issues that really drive the town of Arlington to make it a better place to live and to work? And then what are the skills and attributes that the next town manager should possess? What's important to you to see in that town manager? And sort of combining those two of the issues and the skills, what are the opportunities? What makes Arlington an attractive place? When we're promoting people to look at Arlington as a place to come and work and to become the town manager, what are the opportunities that you see? What are the skills that they could bring to the table? What are the challenges that they could address that would give them the opportunity to make a community an even better place to live and to work and to participate? So with all of that said, I'm going to open it up. I think the idea here, land as I recall, is for me to sort of work with the citizens and residents and the tenants and get a sense of what you're thinking. So I'm going to open it up and hopefully we'll have some people that participate in this process tonight and give me your thoughts. I'm happy to answer any questions about the municipal management marketplace, the process, anything that can help you in helping us determine what's best for the town of Arlington. Yes, just of course, Ernie. And first of all, I'll just ask my colleague, Steve, if he wants to say anything. Thank you, Len. Now, I just would like to thank everybody who was participating this evening. And as Bernie said, it's important for us to hear from the public. We did put out a survey on the town's website. And some of you may have already filled that out. That's going to be open until November 15. But for this evening, we'd like to hear from you and get your thoughts on what you'd like to see in our next town manager. So thank you again. Thank you. So yes, so if you could just raise your hand electronically, it helps to track the order in which you want to speak, you know, just calling you or Bernie, if you want, you can do the callings. Well, I think I think we have a one right off is Phil Goff. Yeah, thanks, Bernie and Len and Steve, Phil Goff, 94 Graffin Street. And just before I get into what I think is really needed in Arlington with the new town manager, Bernie, if you could just tell us a little bit more about your approach to the search process, I know you've been involved, as you mentioned, and as I heard in the search for town managers from other communities. And most recently, I think in Watertown, we scored one with George Parakis, is really great guy, because I'm in the planning world. So I sort of know of him. So what are the things that other communities like Watertown and others you've worked on? What sort of the direction they've given you to sort of inform your approach for looking for a town manager? And I know you want to take input from us here tonight and from the select board and others. But what are those factors that are already kind of baked into your process and approach? Well, I think it's a great question. I think that if I, you know, you sort of described our process a little bit there is that what we've done is we've come in already and spoken to members of the board. We have the survey that's out there on the street. At this point, I think we have 116 responses, and we're hoping to get that up a little bit more by the 15th. And we've been speaking to some of the department heads. And we conducted a survey of the department heads of questionnaire to get their thoughts. You know, we've been digging into the information that's available to us to and then culminating really in tonight's meeting to grab as much information as we can to understand Arlington. You know, we walk into a community really with a we try to set aside any preconceived notions that we might have about the community. Again, I've been in the business a long time. So I walk into almost every community in the Commonwealth with sort of a perspective that I have some sense of what the community is all about. So I try but I try to set that aside and gather the information that we can to understand what's important to the stakeholders of the community. And that would be the department heads, the board, the public and the information we have. And we pull that all together, we generate a position statement, position profile that, you know, as I often say to every community, if we stopped right there, I think there's value because it's allowed the community to step back and think about what's important, what are we looking for from this individual that's going to be filling this position. But we create that position statement that then is used in two different ways. One, it's used to market the position. And it's used as a tool for us, for a screening committee, and for the board to assess the candidates that come forward. And we then move through the process of narrowing the search down and cool down to those individuals that most closely track to the ideal candidate. We conduct the interviews of those people, we bring finalists, the screening committee will bring finalists to the board. And the board will conduct their own interviews and make decisions based upon who would be the best most the best fit for that community. And what we think is important as we go through this process is to cast as wide a net as possible. And so you I appreciate you bringing up the town of excuse me, the city of Watertown. Because I think that's a great example of, you know, sort of reaching out to the network of people that we have, and spreading the word far and wide to identify potential candidates. In the case of George Parakas, I knew George and I was able to, you know, be in contact with him and talk about the position. But we really went out there and used whatever means we could to build the strongest possible pool of candidates. As I said, it's a very competitive market right now to find managers. There are some communities that really struggle. And you'd be surprised at some of the communities that really struggle to get candidates. Much of it's driven by geography. But there are other aspects of it as well, with regards to the political and governmental culture of the community. I don't think Arlington has a problem in that area, but there are communities that do. There are, you know, issues that may trouble some candidates. Again, I don't think Arlington is in that position. But, you know, so but we try to get out there and get as wide a pool as we can so that we have a diverse and qualified pool of candidates to bring forward to the town. So I hope I answered that with the question that you have, Phil. But, you know, our job here is to really assemble as much information as we can about the town and then cast that wide net, spread the word, and help bring those candidates forward for the town to consider. And Azir, if I just quick follow up, Bernie, is your network and those that you spread the word to, is that sort of out of state as well? Are we kind of talking about potential all New England search or nationwide? Like, where is it at? Great question. It's actually nationwide. We utilize the, you know, the network that we I guess there's two different ways I'll respond to that. One is, you know, the postings that we do include the International City and County Management Association. It also includes the women leading government organization generally that we that we reach out to the, you know, there are other organizations that represent underrepresented groups and people that we think should be brought into the mix, again, these are national organizations that we reach out to. But beyond that, you know, that's, that's a pretty simple process. You don't, very frankly, you don't need us to do that. We bring a variety of, you know, hopefully skills and perspective to the, to the job of looking at candidates and sort of managing through the process. But beyond that, we've developed a network over the last seven or eight years with the recruitments that we've done that's nationwide that we can bring candidates in from from all over. Because people have identified us as pretty much a go-to organization here in the Commonwealth that they can, if they're interested in working in municipal government in Massachusetts, community paradigm is the place to go. We have a, you know, for example, our website gets about four to five thousand hits a month of different candidates. You know, we're on the phone talking to people from around the country, looking at coming to Massachusetts and we have interest in being in the New England area that we speak to. You know, so we, we do do it from a nationwide perspective. The reality is, however, with all that said, the reality is that geography does play a role. It plays a role in what communities are looking for and it plays a role in what candidates are looking for. There aren't many people necessarily they're going to be looking to move from where they are to Massachusetts for a variety of reasons. And there are communities that are hesitant to look outside of the Massachusetts marketplace because of concern that, you know, there may not be the awareness or understanding of Tom meeting former government, the board of selectmen, select board of former government. So all of that plays into sort of creating the right match. But we have, we've brought people in from, you know, we have someone right now in Massachusetts, we brought in from Colorado, brought people in from, from Texas for, for, that have looked at positions comes immediately to mind. You know, some people from Connecticut, trying to go through all our clients upstop in my head here, but we do have people from around the country that we speak with. Okay. Another question that people may have, and you know, it isn't just questions, it's I should state that really, I hope you didn't come here to listen to me. If you did, I'm happy to speak, but I really want to hear from, from you and what you think we should know about Arlington, Elizabeth. Actually, I think I saw the next hand up first. Oh, I'm sorry, never sorry. That's okay. Yeah, I want to thank you for this opportunity. Although there's also a part of me that feels like this should always be, there should always be this kind of resident input into major decisions like this. I would like to see a hiring committee that includes some residents, particularly residents that represent some of the less engaged communities in town. One of the issues we face is that there are communities of people in Arlington who don't feel heard and feel pushed to the edges and have a hard time coming forward and expressing themselves. I do feel like we've moved a lot forward, but I am definitely someone who would be interested in reaching beyond the traditionally qualified candidate for town manager to looking maybe for people that have community organizing experience, non-profit management experience, experience working alongside people rather than over people in a hierarchical position. I would love to see somebody who is experienced at helping different groups of people within a community come together and communicate. There's tension between community members in town and our police department. I would love to see an effort put into improving that relationship and a more openness in our police department to dealing with some of the cultural problems they have. Yeah, just generally someone who is approachable and who is willing to think outside the box. I think that we have systems in place that we get very wedded to, but I would love to have us be able to think more outside the box and include more diverse ideas and opinions about how to move forward. Okay, great. Very helpful. Thank you. Hi, I'm Elizabeth. I want to thank you for this opportunity. I second, I agree with Lynette. I also have concerns about the people who are here are the people who are always here. If we look at these names and we're not reaching the people who perhaps we really need to hear from. So I hope that this isn't the end of your community engagement. I would hope that you would go to the senior center and do a listening session and go to where these communities are versus having people come to you. So as also as Lynette alluded to, there has been, I think the town fractured a couple of years ago. I think it's been a really hard time for the town. And I would love to see somebody who is open to working. I feel like there's capital T town organizations and there's lower T town organizations. So there's a lot of nonprofits, a lot of volunteer groups who are not officially part of the town organization, but do incredible things like Arlington eats. I'm part of a group called Arlington Fights Racism. So I would love to have a town manager who sees those people and groups as partners versus and reaches out to them and incorporates them into town events versus seeing them as other and not reaching out to them, maybe seeing them as competition. I don't really know. I'm not part of it. I'm the other. So I don't really know. I also agree that we need to have somebody who is willing to take a fresh look at public safety, the town's relationship with our public safety officers and be realistic. We've got problems and they're not going to go away by not talking about them. So let's talk about them. We need some courage. We need someone who's going to be brave and have the hard conversations. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Yeah, and I certainly, it's interesting to hear your thoughts on that regarding the partnerships that are out there with the organizations. Sort of, if I could sort of tie into my own experience that, you know, that was a key part, if you know the city of Lowell and the history it has in moving forward as a community of diversity and the partnerships have been developed with neighborhood and nonprofit organizations, being the Urban Teen Equality Coalition or the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Organization or the Coalition for a Better Eighth, which is a neighborhood development organization. They really looked at it, certainly during my time as manager there, they were looked at as really partners throughout the, in terms of improving the community. And I think that if you look at city managers, town managers in general, there's been a shift over the last number of years to become more focused on that and level of community engagement and working in partnership with different organizations that, as opposed to the more traditional, you know, stay in the back room, just working on your spreadsheets type of approach. So that type of perspective I think is where municipal management has gone and is heading. Yeah, if I could just, you know, Arlington is a community that's run a lot by volunteers. There's a huge volunteer, which is an incredible wealth and a gift, but it's also a very closed group of volunteers. It's not a system that's open for everybody. It's a who knows, not I'm not gonna, that's not, you know, I'm making a blanket statement. There are differences, but it's a who knows who situation. And I think that needs to be broken. And I think that the new town manager needs to be open to having public forums and hearing from people and not hiding. Yep. Thanks. Absolutely. Great. Thank you. Kristin. Hi. My name is Kristin Anderson. I'm a town meeting member in precinct 11 and I run a business in Arlington Heights. And I'm here tonight to ask you to find a town manager who has experience bringing commercial real estate tenants and commercial development opportunities to our beautiful town. Has lost much of its commercial development opportunities over the decades. This has had an impact on the town's budget. If you look at the municipalities with with which we share a border who do not have budget problems. I'm thinking Cambridge and Somerville. You'll see that those municipalities have a well balanced ratio of commercial real estate to residential taxes. They do not have to repeatedly raise taxes on their residents. Raising taxes is problematic for low income folks and for folks on fixed incomes. Some more commercial development not only provides residents with local jobs, it increases income diversity. And it is respectful of elders, many of whom have lived in Arlington for decades. And as someone who loves being able to live and work in the same town, I understand the value of being able to walk or ride my bike to work. Commuting is a terrible waste of personal time and our personal time is important. Quality of life improves for folks who are able to walk to their jobs. So I share a lot of concerns that folks have mentioned here this evening. But I wanted to specifically ask for this. Thanks for opportunity. Thank you. You know and we've certainly heard that. We're aware of the the sort of the dominance of the residential values creating the tax base of the town of Arlington and the challenges with regards to commercial development. So thank you for that. Thanks. Other people weigh in. What should we know about Arlington in terms of if we're okay Steve. Thank you Mr. Lynch. Steve Revolac 111 Sunnyside Avenue. I'll try to kind of answer the questions that you sort of set out for us and just sort of string it together. A few of the characteristics that I appreciated in Mr. Chapter Lane. I felt he was a good communicator. He was diplomatic and quite politically savvy. You know he was for in a lot of ways he was he was pretty good. He scored well as a people person. I also felt he was progressive especially in the areas of you know making town buildings more energy efficient and modernizing processes within the town. I also appreciated that he took a regional view on a lot of things. He was involved in the Metro Mayors Coalition with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. You know the important point there being that some issues are you know better solved through collaboration with other municipalities. You can't just do them by yourself. And I think that's another area where Mr. Chapter Lane did well. In terms of challenges I think a lot of it for Arlington comes down to land use and transportation. You know having been a community that was built out in the 20th century we made a lot of the you know same mistakes that other communities in the 20th century made. You know we're not the sprawliest but we do have some of that and with the need to you know move away from fossil fuels global warming and that sort of thing these are all kind of big problems that we're going to have to address and we'll probably meet some municipal leadership to address them. That is what I have. Thank you. Okay great thank you. I made a come back for the question I was about to ask for more but I'd like to hear anybody else here that Mona. Mona. Hi. Mona Mandel. I think nine town meeting member and 14 Water Street Arlington. First of all thank you so much for providing this forum and really appreciate select board members and the committee to engage the community for more feedback and would also echo what Lynette was saying would be curious to hear if there is a hiring committee that is also formed for this purpose. I wanted to just I heard what you said and so these are just some things I felt would be to try to let you know what I feel would be some important things for the town manager. So first one is the top priorities for town manager. I feel that the we have a projected budget deficit that's coming up so I think someone who that is something that will be pretty high up there. Another top initiative would be Arlington public school systems and to support equity initiatives there. The third priority would be affordable housing. Fourth priority it's not in any order as such these are just some priorities as such. Fourth would be diversity equity and inclusion and being collaborative nature. The fifth one would be to support small business initiatives in Arlington so it broadens the tax base as to what Cristin also mentioned and last but not least is climate justice and climate emergency. Great yeah and you know it's interesting all of much not all this is echoing what we've been hearing as we as we've been in the town talking to people and from the survey so this is this is very helpful to hear this. Thank you. What skills and attributes do you think are important for the for the next minute? These are the issues but maybe maybe we're about to go into that. You know I wanted to my second point would be challenges I think you wanted to talk to challenges so I'll talk about that my humble opinion of course and the third talk about is skills and fourth is opportunities. I think those are how you laid out and I was trying to take notes as you spoke earlier. So in terms of challenges I would say Arlington has is political and there's a very strong civic involvement from various groups and so I think it's very important for the town manager to be perceived as well as actionate as being open to all view points rather than just focusing on protecting the the town interests only and that's where creative solutions can come out where you work collaboratively with various groups so I think that I see that as a challenge as well as an opportunity. The second thing would be the budget deficit I think for the town manager there's so many competing parodies I think that will be something we do want the town manager to think of because it has impacts about overrides which also impacts property taxes for people who may not be able to afford them who are in fixed income or maybe having issues with paying higher property taxes even though we support all the work just to have that into consideration as well be able to work with budget deficits in creative manner. The third thing I wanted to mention was the skills that you that I feel would be good I think one strong one would be community building experience working with groups who have varying opinions and perspectives being very collaborative and being open to working with different groups strong experience in governance and accountability and being talented open to creative solutions last but not least progressive and making processes more efficient for the town and its residents. In terms of opportunities Arlington is a leader in many areas and I think I don't have to go into that I think you see that in so many things that have been highlighted I'm sure when you talk to different residents in town but I do want to speak about some areas that I feel also need some help and I think that's an opportunity for this new manager to work on to develop. I think this was already mentioned outreach to various groups building relations with all groups including seniors including people of color including people who live in our affordable housing community as well as building trust with police relations with the town. So thank you so much that's all I had and I would love to hear from others. Thank you very much. Thank you there's a lot there that that I've written down so thank you very much. I'm going to go to Lynette or ask the Lynette to speak and then we'll come we'll come back to you Philip go ahead Lynette. I just wanted to add one more thing to my list. I think that it's really important to have leadership that is transparent and you know mistakes have been made by our town leadership to have the humility to admit oops we made a mistake here's how we're gonna you know to be open and you know we all have egos but the people who are in the highest positions have the hardest time owning their you know maybe minor mistakes but I think that it's a great model and that we learn from our mistakes and mistakes are an opportunity to move forward and if we don't own them we can't grow from them and we can't learn from them we've we've had in my opinion mistakes made by our leadership and especially in terms of the police department and the relationship with the police department and I'm and I would love to see that shift so there's a greater transparency you know here's here's what happened and here's what we did wrong and here's how we're going to fix it. Okay great thank you. Phil I'll go to him because I said I was going to go to you next but you have a couple other people who've jumped in that haven't spoken yet but go ahead Phil. I won't be too too long. I think all your comments are really terrific and I do especially want to second what Steve had said about Adam and I'm sure Bernie you already know a little bit about our previous town manager and some of the characteristics that made him what I think many people consider a pretty successful town manager so the more I think you know about Adam and I think he was kind of the perfect guy for the job at the time I think finding someone who reflects some of those qualities that Steve had talked about better than and I need to repeat him too much the communication the political savvy that you know he he also lived in Arlington or at least for most of the time that he was here and I think that that matters to some degree and I'm sure that isn't a requirement like I know it isn't city of Boston to live in a city that if you work for us but I think that that you know says a lot about Adam and potentially a future town manager the one kind of comment or opinion I want to say here too that I think to keep in mind I'd love to see in our next town manager I think Adam had this characteristic to some degree but you know I would have kind of wanted it perhaps even more so is to really recognize the power of of Massahab in our town and its critical importance it's really kind of a it's a powerful like organizing armature you know you said you wanted to learn about Arlington the way I say this is a planner it's a organizing armature of the town that's really more so than you see in just about any other town or small city that I know of where it provides you know the links it connects like all of our grocery stores all of our business districts our high school and our middle school and probably one of the elementary schools you know library the town hall kind of you know culture art but it could be more and I think that you know a town manager with you know who sort of comes to Arlington and really sees sort of diagrammatically how important Massahab is to the town and the transit I forgot to mention transit of course is key and understands that Massahab is is decent it's good but it could be so much better I think we've you know we've improved things and bits and pieces we've tried to make parts of it and and parts of it are indeed a complete street a livable street that are that is accessible for all modes of transportation for all ages for all abilities but it isn't quite there there are gaps in that pedestrian network and that bicycle network transit could be a little bit better there are opportunities redevelopment in the business districts I'd love to see more of that there you know are some sites where we probably could have some more density for both businesses and residences and you know I think again seeing Massahab as having that real potential to become something even more than that already is I'd love to see that in the town manager in the future okay great thank you yeah and I I've certainly spent some time on Massahab there in Arlington so I'm somewhat familiar with I won't again I never claimed to know be the expert on all this but it is a very crucial corridor certainly for the town so you know great thank you Robin Hi thank you for the opportunity to speak I'm also a town meeting member from Precinct 12 and I want to second a lot of the comments that were made especially by Lynette and Elizabeth and I also think that we need to do more for small businesses but I also want to see more done for artists in town I am an artist full-time full-time working artists I know that artists in the region have had a really tough time there's almost no studio space left anywhere in Metro Boston and surrounding areas and I say that as an artist too has had to go further out but I've been in West Concord for like 27 years and I'm getting squeezed out of my space eventually too just with real estate prices the way they are there's almost nothing affordable if there's anything at all and I would also suggest that you reach out to the arts community for input as well I'd like to see that I'd love to see diverse candidates for the position and I love the idea of reaching out to non-traditional sources to find candidates I love the idea of community organizers or non-profits or you know just other avenues for finding people who are good at at running things who have great executive function and multitasking skills and who are savvy about various things I had a question about how do you usually reach out to people excuse me well you know again we we focus you know largely on the network of people that we have and we depend too on people like yourself if there's people that you think that would be particularly interesting to us we utilize the again the sources or the resources of the posting organizations that we that we sort of focus in on municipal government and it's always interesting to hear looking with communities looking for people outside of the box and we certainly have seen that in some cases most communities do tend to focus in on people with municipal backgrounds or people that are familiar with municipal government and very frankly most people who are interested in these positions have made a lifetime commitment to the value of municipal government and therefore you know that's sort of the people that are out there looking there have been certainly some success stories of people that have come out of different sectors and tried to work in municipal government but there are others that have not been as successful you know have made the decision to get out of it so it is a challenge you know there's Massachusetts in particulars very unique in terms of its governmental structures it's it's laws it's regulations and there's you know we have I don't know how many communities have gone into that people say you know get us someone from the private sector get us someone from the non-private sector and once people get into the municipal world from those sectors it it doesn't necessarily always work out as well as one would hope and would like but certainly we're open to the possibility that there may be some people out there they're coming out of those you know I certainly can appreciate what you've what you've spoken of regarding the the artists community the creative economy you know the value that they bring to a community on so many levels and you know certainly we we'd be interested in hearing from from those people if they would like to weigh in on this process well I hope you'll reach out to the artist community also directly yeah is there is there an organization in in Arlington of the community yeah artists yeah yeah great great yeah okay well we can certainly try to to reach out and grab some information and input from them as we as we go through this process thank you great thank you Rajiv hi there thank you to everyone for providing this opportunity for us to be able to voice our opinions and thoughts about this very important step I am part of the Arlington Human Rights Commission so I just wanted to state that but I do not speak for the commission I speak on my personal behalf today I just want to echo a lot what is already being said so I won't repeat it all but just wanted to quickly go through all of the other people talking about the importance of diversity making sure that the person who is hired is focused on affordable housing listening to people who are not heard people who belong to minority communities being on the commission we often hear from people who are at the most vulnerable who are facing issues who have been sort of targeted for their minority status so I really hope that the new town manager whoever it is works to be proactive about solving these issues a lot of these issues occur and we sort of have a reactive approach and we are trying to fix things or patch things but if we have we are more proactive about it addressing upfront as to why this is happening why do we have swastikas in the schools and you know Black Lives Matter signs being stolen or vandalized and we've had a whole spate of these issues so I really feel that the town manager needs to come in and has to kind of address some of these issues make the people those who are vulnerable feel or that they belong to this community I mean one of the easiest way to kind of illustrate how people don't feel heard is if you see the voting patterns some of the more diverse these things always have the lowest voter turnout it's just because I don't think they feel heard so they don't feel like they want to vote or you know have a say in who gets to represent people in town there's a lot of incredible work being done by a lot of town bodies and committees but the representation or the people who are part of these committees it belongs to always you know white upper class or you know higher income demographics I would encourage the new town manager to develop a process to be able to recruit people who are diverse who have different opinions who are from all all spheres of Arlington and ensure how you know because what happens is the majority even on those town's bodies and committees people who volunteer the efforts the majority of the work is done by a very few we have to be able to create a process where you have to make sure that everybody has an effective voice and making sure that all those views are represented I also echo somebody who talked about the importance of Mass Ave we want to make sure that every time I'm on Mass Ave I always hear from people about feeling unsafe if they're biking or they're walking on crosswalks we have to develop a mechanism where people feel safe to be able to access all the wonderful businesses that we have on this great corridor of Mass Ave and I think yeah that's that's all I oh the one final thing is that being part of the AHRC I also view we partner with other towns about a lot of diverse events that are held but Arlington doesn't seem to have to do seem to have a lot of those happening in our town you know things like Indigenous People's Day and so on a lot of the other towns are making a huge effort to involve their minority communities it would be great if we could do something like that something like not only maybe you're not on the scale of the town day but something you know to be able to celebrate all those communities I mean I moved to this town about 15 years ago I had no idea what was going on and now when I first moved here only when I made an effort to engage myself to realize that there are so many towns and bodies and committees it would be great if Arlington developed a mechanism where anybody who moved to town has a way of no you know feeling known that there's all these opportunities for them to volunteer and engage so it would be great if the town or the town manager develops a process to do that okay great right thank you thank you for taking your time to listen to us today great thank you Barbara hi thank you very much I really appreciate the opportunity to come and talk to you I'm going to try and keep it short and make maybe three points but the first point is I come from a probably this relatively unique position in this that I was raised by a city manager I was the child of a city manager grew up in the household so I am like so familiar with the pressures and the and the you know the problems and the decisions and the issues and the budgets that need to come out of that person's head while they're running this position and and as I think about it I think about it as as a good town manager for Arlington I think needs to be like an orchestra leader and the and the orchestra leader has the audience that he's there to please specifically though he has a board of no I can't get rid of that the select board that he has to please because he or she does not work for the town specifically unlike a mayor form of government the town manager works for and to make the select board happy so with that in mind removing the select board's happiness the town also has to be happy and the town is like the audience in this orchestra hall and and the department heads are the the members of the orchestra if there's one thing that I would like for a town manager to be able to do is to make those those department heads work together as a team make them feel like a team be good at team building make them understand what's going on and care about what each other is doing within their departments and to be aware of the various needs and interests and policies that the audience thinks are going to come out the town policies that come out of of that are that the town's people are aware of make sure that all of the department heads are aware of those policies in Arlington we have elected we have boards that are elected we have boards that are appointed we have boards that are appointed by the town we have boards that as Robin referred to earlier the the arts groups that are in town that are not necessarily some have some appointments and some are just freestanding groups we have a lot we have dozens and dozens of groups that contribute tremendously to the quality of life of people in Arlington and those groups some of them have very formal mission statements and policies others have less formal goals and policies the town manager needs to be aware of of those goals and policies and needs to weave it in to the department heads in their daily and weekly and monthly goals so that they can reinforce those policies that come out from the audience great thank you and where was your mother or father city manager back in that day it would have been the father and and he was for about 20 years in Santa Ana and before that big deal all right so you you know you know the business so oh yeah good very good thank you very much thank you Elizabeth um great I I wanted to just maybe ask you a couple questions about the process so two people have asked if there is a selection committee and I'm wondering if you could answer that and say who is on it if there is and if there isn't what is the plan about that and be what is the transparency of this process how will we as residents be able to follow along will there be publication of the statement of the position statement you know I'm curious to know what you're hearing from the department heads and from the select board about what they would like in a town manager so how do we stay informed sure sure in terms of the there's not a selection committee and I think what we'll probably be talked about at some point by the board is a in some type of screening committee to help with the process the board selects the the manager so there's not a there's not a committee that selects the manager that's the responsibility of the the board the select board but there is talk we're working now on what type what the screening process would look like and how that works out and so we'll that that will be coming up though in a subsequent conversations with the select board in terms of the position profile yes it will be a public document we can it'll be posted on our web page and I would anticipate it would be posted on the town's web page and it will provide all of that you know again keep in mind it's going to be a pool to market the position to give people information about the town about the position about the issues you know and it's it's done in a format that if you go to our website communityparadigm.com you can see what's out there right now and other positions that we're working on in other communities we can you know someone mentioned the town of water the city of Watertown which we just recently completed in the last few months we did the same process there but that will be that's out there it is very transparent as far as the actual screening process the screening of the candidates will occur in executive session that is not public because people's jobs are at stake and we don't we want to get them you know the most robust diverse pool that we can and so people tend to apply for positions unless there's some guarantee of confidentiality as they go through the process but once the screening process results in the selection of finalists that are sent on to the board those will be public those are public presented publicly the candidates are out there publicly and they will be interviewed publicly so that's all a very public process it's some some states the laws allow for that to be take place outside of public the public but in massachusetts it's required that those finalists be considered publicly thank you and when you are screening candidates how do you how do you control for bias you know we've we've used a process in a couple of the communities of a blind review it's more challenging in the municipal sector or for a position of this sort because you know we can we can delete names of people you know we can try to take out any identifying information that tells people whether you know what the gender is what the gender identity is what the ethnicity and race and age are but the end of the day you know we're going to be looking people are going to be looking at this individual works at this location and you know if you started to take out the communities that they work in and we've tried doing that then you lose everything it's about the people's backgrounds so we can we've tried to take out some of that information but it's it's it's met with only limited success the other the other aspect of that that's that's I would say interesting and maybe that's not the best word is that many communities now with the emphasis and that has been placed on building a more diverse who are interested in seeing what you know who are the people from underrepresented groups that have applied for the position so we've had committees that we've worked with that have said you know you know it is a challenge getting people of color to apply for these positions getting women to apply for these positions we just don't have the reality is that we don't necessarily have as many people from those groups that are that are applying for these municipal positions in spite of all of our efforts because there's still just challenges out there but in communities there has been a push well you know let's make sure that we have women people of color that are in our pool that we're looking at so that of course disappears when you make it a blind process so we try to weigh all of that as we go through it but we have we have used it but it's it hasn't necessarily met with as much satisfaction as some people were looking for thank you you know it's not like you know there's in the if we were a high tech company just are we can use that as an example and we were looking for a software engineer just a software engineer you know there's hundreds thousands of software engineers out there you know and you want to take away the the name that would tell you the the light would like to tell you the gender of the ethnicity then you know really would matter because then you really could see it but when you need to throw in where people are working that's going to tell you and everyone it's all public so it's all googleable so that people can just do their own thing if there are if they're on the committee so it's a hurdles that we've tried to work through Robin I was just wondering what the time frame is do you know yet in terms of yeah our goal is to probably get this out on the street at the beginning of December with the goal being that we would have resumes in hand at the beginning of January go through the screening process in the interviews during February and have these in the hands of the select board by the beginning to middle of March with a hiring probably sometime in early April okay thanks sure and that in that way usually these positions there's a about a 60-day notice period so the hope would be that the new town manager would be in place probably sometime in June another question Conquering I just can I just say I know I said this before and I think you probably noted it but I think that if the town is really committed to having a diverse applicant pool that they would do well to look beyond the normal recruiting places to looking for people with community organizing experience and nonprofit management experience that's where you'll find the women and the people of color okay yeah and again I think that what communities have found is and I certainly support that and support the you know we're very proud of the fact that we have had through our searches the 90 or so that we've done women have been in the finalist pool in I believe about 70 percent of our searches have resulted women in the finalist pool and selected in 35 to 40 percent I haven't run those numbers recently both of which exceed the state average and we have had an opportunity to have a number of candidates that are people of color that have been interviewed and or appointed so we're very proud of all of that and the balance really is the diversity of the pool and making sure that the people that are in the pool are truly interested in the position and are appropriate for the position and you know it's really weighing all of that that we're focused on but yeah we couldn't agree more on the importance of the the diversity of the pool something we take very seriously good thank you other comments that people may have I think we've blocked off about an hour and a half of this tonight running up against that but we're here to hear from you so want to make sure we have we get everything that we we possibly can and we can go a little later since we started about 10 minutes later late as well yeah okay okay Len I think we're though I think we're probably everyone's had an opportunity now I think to weigh in and or said what they need to say but again if there's something we're missing here no we did leave this wide open just so that people could speak about whatever they wanted and ask any questions to make any comments so there'll be other opportunities you know so whether Mr. Lynch is here or not me we will hold in other forums mean and we'll reach out to the community and certainly if anyone has any ideas you know more suggestions as to the pool to reach and where to reach them I'm all ears me my colleague is all ears and so we will do as much as we can you know and and and and any and in any format mean and and provide that to Bernie if it's appropriate and certainly to all colleagues when it's appropriate also and I think I think people here in attendance and people that may be watching this on local local cable government access cable you know they know how to get a hold of the board members and I'll put my email out there it's be Lynch at communityparadigm.com if people have additional information that they want to send on to me you know our goal is to get this out on the street in December but the selection won't take place until much later so at any point between now and December and then beyond that if people have questions or if feedback that they want to give to the board members or to me happy to take it and really I was trying to emphasize to me it is only doing the creation of the position statement of the profile that we want input made we will take input right at the time that we make the decision so exactly Elizabeth um so will there be other what what is the what is the game plan for further outreach beyond to the community beyond tonight is there other listening sessions I think I think what generally generally what and again following the model that that we've used in other communities the the you know we we're always able to willing and able to take feedback and information throughout the process but we use the forum we use the survey and then generally there's some type of process or some type of citizen engagement or community engagement towards the end of the process as we're looking at the finalists to give people an opportunity to meet people but we have to we need to talk that over with the board as we get towards that end yeah I just think you're going to get different input than the you are from this group about what people in town need from a town manager and I just think that there's a missed opportunity to hear from different people and rather than the same people so I'm just going to put that out there okay thank you it's certainly we'll we'll we'll we'll explore some other opportunities that maybe possible out there okay okay well you know I think we're going to bring this to an end you know and I'll circle back to my colleagues Steve if he wants to say anything or comment thank you now I just want to thank everybody again and as I was listening to the comments tonight these comments are going to be helpful to us to our colleagues but also to people who ultimately will apply for the job because I'm sure they as proud of their due diligence for the town they will take a look at meetings as well as this forum tonight so thank you for the participation great yes thank you thank you very much everybody you know so I'm going to end the recording now maybe thank you I wish you a good night great thank you buddy good night thank you


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Family Theater presents Bonita Grandville and Charlie Ruggles. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater presents transcribed Eclipse, starring Bonita Grandville. And now to introduce the drama, here is your host, Charlie Ruggles. Thank you, Larry Chatterton. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family Theater urges you to pray, pray together as a family. And now to our drama, Eclipse, starring Bonita Grandville. I remember the bus terminal at Williamsfield. Jimmy had told me about Anne, the other girl, the girly fallen and lovely. Then the bus arrived and Jimmy tried to help me into my coat. I snatched it away from him and hurried out across the wet sidewalk. The glass doors of the bus closed behind me and I sat down. We swung onto the north highway at the edge of town. The rain was swirling down in heavy sheets and blowing hard against the windshield. All of a sudden the bus driver shouted something and then spun the steering wheel sharply to the right. At the last moment I saw a truck getting out of control. Miss Hill, are you awake? I'm awake, Doctor. How'd you sleep last night? I didn't. That pill didn't help at all? Not much. Young lady, I know this thing has been quite a shock but it's almost two weeks since that accident. Medicine can do a lot but, well, the patient has to pitch in too, you know. Can medicine fix what's wrong with me? Maybe, I don't know. I just can't get used to it, Dr. Racklin. Why, I'm blind. Miss Hill, did I ever tell you the story about the man with the celluloid head? The man with what? Celluloid head. Great man, bank president, university trustee. No one ever knew a secret. Oh, for heaven's sake. Not now. Don't rub the bandages. It'll just burn all the more. All right, I won't. Now, listen, Miss Hill, we can try. I'm being honest. We can try and there's a chance we'll be able to restore your vision. All of it? No, probably not. How much? I don't know, really. And I may not know for quite a while. But... Dr. Racklin? Yes, nurse? There's a young man out here who would like to see you. One of your patients. It's me, Doc, Bill Chapman. Oh, be right along, Bill. Well, what do you say, young lady? Will you try it? If you think there's a chance. I think there is. Heaven knows I've been wrong often enough, but it's worth trying. All right. All right, if you think so, we'll try it. I didn't sleep that night, either. But for the first time in two weeks, when morning came, I wasn't exhausted. And I learned something. How the blind can tell when it's morning. It's a wonderful hush that seems to hang over everything just before the world wakes up. A kind of purple hush. Purple and gray. And yet, with a promise of something green and yellow. Strange. All you know are the things you can hear, but your mind gives color to the noises, more color than they really have. I'd finished breakfast and was lying there in my own private darkness when I realized someone was talking to me. Miss Hill? Yes. Who's there? I couldn't tell if you were asleep or not. My name's Chapman, Bill Chapman. I... I was in that bus accident with you. Yeah, Doc Racklin tells me where the only co-patients left here. Well, well, come in. Sit down, Mr. Chapman. Thanks. I have a little trouble getting around. Were you badly hurt? No, no, no, not bad. Slight fracture of the arm and I banged my leg up. I can manage okay with my cane, though. I didn't know you had a cane. These bandages on my eyes. Oh, sure. I forgot. Are you a friend of Dr. Racklin's? Not really. We got acquainted since he's been taking care of me. I just felt like some company. I hope you don't mind my stopping by. I know. No, I'm glad for the chance to talk to someone. Well, being like this is... No, I guess it isn't any picnic. I'll tell you, I'll get you a radio in here. They happen for rent, you know. Well, that'd be wonderful. But why don't we just talk for a while? Sure. Is Williamsfield where you live? Used to be. I lived here with my aunt. But I work in Cleveland now. I mean, I worked in Cleveland. Well, you'll be back there in no time. What did you do? Secretary, law firm. What do you know? That's my line.  Well, it says so on a license. Of course, I've only been practicing for four years. Didn't even start law school until after the war. Korea? No, number two. I like it, though. A law, I mean. So do I. I say if it's not too personal. What's the doc got in mind for you? Surgery? I guess so. Uh-huh. Can you see anything at all? Not a thing. I try every time they change the bandages, but... Well, if you don't feel like talking about it. Oh, no. No, I want to talk about it. You can't imagine what it's like. It's not quite blackness.  You keep thinking if you could just blow the fog away. Yeah, I can guess what it's like. Bill? Yes? What kind of a day is it? What kind? Oh, you mean the weather? Yes. Oh, it's warm, sunny. Great day to be alive. Well, if it isn't my two patients. Morning, doctor. Morning, Bill. Dr. Ratcliffe? The same. I've got some news for you, young lady. Good news, I hope. Oh? We start tomorrow morning. On the operations? Well, not exactly. You'll be under anesthetic, but mostly we'll be trying to find out the extent of the damage and how much can be done about it. When will I know? Oh, I'd say we'll have a pretty good idea by tomorrow afternoon. So take it easy today. You'll need your strength. If you don't think she ought to have any visitors around doc, I can move over. Well, Bill, I don't know. Well, please let him stay, doctor. I'll be quiet, I promise. Maybe Bill can read to me. Read to you? Sure, doc. Say, I've got a new book, good one too, down in my room. I'll read that to her. All right, fine. But just don't overdo it. We won't really. Well, be on my way. See you in the morning, Marjorie. Bye, Bill. So long, doc. Goodbye, doctor. I like him. Everybody does. He's good at his job too, one of the best. I know he can help me. If I had to stumble through life like this, I couldn't do it. Marjorie, I know it's tough, but you've got to get a hold of yourself. You have to be able to see anything. The sky or even read anything.  Bill, he's just got to help me. If I can't see again, I'd just as soon be dead. All the rest of that day, Bill Chapman read to me from the book of short stories his mother had brought him. His voice was quiet and restful. And as I lay there listening to him read, I tried to picture what he looked like. Did he have light hair or dark? Was he tall, thin, heavy? I couldn't decide. And then I realized that Bill's appearance didn't matter to me because it wasn't what he looked like that I found so pleasant. And I suddenly wondered how many friends I'd missed having just because there was some flaw in their appearance that kept me from wanting to know them better. Following morning at 7.30, I was taken down to surgery. When I woke up almost three hours later, I realized I was back in my room again and that Bill was there. How you doing, lady? Bill? Right here. How do you feel? I don't know yet. All right, I guess. Dr. Racklin came by while he was still under. He said he'd be back later. Did he say anything else? Just for you to take it easy. Would you pour me a glass of water, Bill? I'm dry as a bone. Sure. Let's see, there's a picture here on your bed table. And a glass. Is there anything wrong, Bill? Oh, no. It's my arms just a little stiff from the accident. Of course, I forgot. There we are. Here, I'll hand you the glass. Hold out your hand. I'll hang on to it till you get a grip. Well, let's see there. I've got it. Thanks, Bill. You bet. Say, it's none of my business, but is that an engagement ring you were wearing? It was. I never noticed it before. Isn't it? I'm sure its donor will be glad to get it back. You're not going to do that just because of the accident, are you? Oh, no, Bill. It was all over before then. He found someone else. He must have slipped his trolley. You're well rid of him. That's very sweet. Only possible explanation. Tell me, do you have a girl, Bill? Hundreds.  No, seriously. Are you married? But I live with my mother if I were married. All right, then. Are you engaged? In practice of law? Yes. Now, be serious. Mr. Chapman? Yes, nurse. Could I see you out here for a minute? Sure thing. Don't go away. I'll have a whole new set of questions for you when you get back. That didn't take long. Now, where were we? It's me, Miss Hill, Dr. Acklin. I wanted to talk to you alone. Doctor, Bill said you'd come by earlier. How does it look? Well, to be perfectly truthful, it doesn't look very encouraging. What do you mean? We've removed quite a few splinters of glass from each of your eyes the day of the accident. Remember my telling you that? Yes. At the time, we couldn't be sure how much permanent damage had been done. I know. I didn't tell you this, but we realized that from the start you'd probably never recover the sight of your left eye. It was too badly injured. There was a chance, though, that the other eye might be saved. And now you've found out that it can't be saved? I don't think so. Ever? You see, there are certain tissues in our body that replace themselves when they're injured or destroyed and others that don't, that can't replace themselves. It's one of those things. There doesn't seem to be much reason for it, but the eye tissues you've injured do not have that regenerative faculty. I'm going to be blind.  That's a big statement, Marjorie. The work that's been done in corneal transplants and graftings are... I mean without that. Without a miracle. Well, I don't want to rule out miracles, but for the moment, we can't bank on them, either. Doctor... Now listen, Marjorie. I have had to tell this same thing to dozens of people that they probably aren't going to see anymore. It's a blower big one, but it isn't the end of their lives. Please, please go away. You'll probably feel better if you keep talking. No. No, I just want to be left alone. All right, I'll try to get some rest. I'll be in to see you in the morning. For what? There's nothing you can do. Please go. Our lordy, you were sedative. You could use the sleep. I told you I wanted to be alone. It's just the nurse, Miss Hill.  No. There's a nice salad and some pudding. I don't want any. I know how you must feel, but you've got to eat something. I do not. Don't you understand English? I said no, no, no. Well, no, get out. What are you doing up and dressed?  I'm leaving. Leaving? You can't leave now. You're not equipped to look out for yourself. There's all sorts of training and orientation you'll need. I'll get along. Do you have any place to go? My aunt lives here in town, and I can stay with her for a while. And then what? What's it to you? Afraid you'll lose track of a good case history? That's a pleasant way to put it. I'm leaving, that's all. Nothing very complicated about it. No? How are you going to take care of yourself? How do I know? I've never been blind before. Will you leave me alone, please? All right. I can't make you stay here. Marjorie? Oh, are you out of bed? Hello, Bill. What's all the ruckus about? I've tried to talk her out of it, but she's determined to leave you. Well, you know women, Doc. Can I drop you anywhere, Marjorie? I'm checking out myself this morning. Bill, no, listen to me. My arm's okay, Doc. Little stiff, that's all. Besides, I don't practice law with it. But Bill... My arm's coming to pick me up in the car. How about it, Marjorie? Want to lift? Quiet. All right, Bill. I'd love one. I'm going to my aunt's house. Good. We'll go downstairs and wait in the lobby. Where's your bag? I think it's... Yes. The nurse put it on the bed. I'll take it, Bill. No. I've got it, Doc. I'll see you downstairs. We'll be all right. You go ahead and take care of your other patients. Okay? All right. Marjorie, if you change your mind about having more treatment... I don't see what good it can do now. You might be surprised. Come on, lady, take my arm. We'll keep in touch, Doc. Give my best to your mother, Bill. You bet, Doc, so long. I guess I said some pretty ungrateful things to Dr. Racklin. Oh, he's used to it. I know I shouldn't have, but... Oh, Bill. Bill, I'm blind.  Come on now, one thing at a time. Let's go downstairs first.  I've been trying... trying to ask you about this hospital. Is it pretty, Bill? Pretty? No matter the fact, it isn't. It's built funny. Half gothic, half French. And where do you ride on the elevator? Genuine Boob McNutt. Is it safe? Oh, what's safe? It goes up and down. That's all you can ask. Here we are. Made any plans, Marjorie? About what you're going to do? Do? I can't even get out of a building without someone to help me. There's nothing wrong with taking a little help now, men. You'd be surprised how few people do things all by themselves. Yes. Morning, Mr. Chairman. Hi, Sam. A couple customers for you. Step right in. Thank you. Checking out, Mr. Chairman? Yep.  The service is pretty sluggish, too. I don't need to hear myself. Smart fellow. You hear the Jorkensen fight last night? Yeah. Glad I didn't bet with you. I saw him against Ross in the garden and thought he won a real glass jar. Evening. Oh, he's too old. He ought to get out. Main floor. Thanks. Take it easy, Sam. We'll see you in a minute. Bye, Mr. Chairman. Bye, young lady. Goodbye. Slow down, now. There's some steps here down to the front door. Bill. Bill, wait. What's the matter?  You better get that out of your head. She's going to see plenty of you from now on. No. No, Bill, it won't work. You're going to see plenty of me. No, Bill, it won't work. You're just trying to be nice. Bet I am. I'm doing pretty good, too. Bill, I'm blind. I can't let you start something like that. Miss Hill, I'm beginning to think you're trying to trifle with my affections. Bill, don't you realize, I can't let you talk like this just because you feel sorry for me. Sorry for you? Lady, I'm in love with you. Oh, no. No, you're not. You're not. Bill. I thought you were going to be out in front. Oh, hi, Mom. Sorry, we got held up. Mom, this is Marjorie. Well, at last. Bill's been raving about you over the phone for the last two nights. How are you? Oh, Mrs. Chapman, please. Please make Bill understand. I can't do this to him. Tell me, Mom, is she beautiful? Well, let me see. She has blonde hair.  How about dimensions? Well, about five foot three. Very trim figure. Skinny. I knew there was a reason why your voice echoed. Bill, you know what I look like. Don't you? Not exactly. But I've guessed pretty well. Mrs. Chapman, what? What Bill's trying to tell you is that he's blind to Marjorie. He's been blind for almost eight years now. Bill? Yeah. So, you see, I'm really not feeling very sorry for you after all, Marjorie. But you couldn't be blind. Because I'm a lawyer. But you read stories to me. From a book written in Braille. I can get around OK too. I've got my cane. Oh, why didn't you tell me? Well, I'm an old patient of Doc Rackland's and when he told me about you, I... Yes, I see. You just wanted to show me that being blind doesn't mean you... It doesn't mean you can't fall in love, honey. That's the main thing it doesn't mean. Oh, Bill, I don't know what to say. Don't say anything yet. Let's just see how things work out, huh? Now you children wait here while I go pull up the car. You bet, Mom. Bill, will I ever get really used to being blind? Have you ever gotten used to it? In a way, it's... Well, Dr. Rackland was right when he called it a whole new world. It isn't so bad. I suppose it might even be a pretty wonderful world if you had someone to share it with you. Marjorie. Well, I've got to start living in another world and I can't think of anyone I'd rather share it with, Bill. Marjorie, you'll see. It's all different and in a way, it is pretty wonderful. In fact, I can't wait to show you all the wonderful things I've found. This is Charlie Ruggles again with just a thought before we say good night. I suppose the subject closest to all our hearts just now is peace and how to find it. If we turn to God, talk to Him, really pray with a faith that He will hear our prayers. We will find an inner peace. The man who is at peace with himself is at peace with his neighbor. Prayer and prayer alone can bring peace to the world. God is ready to give us much if we ask Him. Is it so hard to ask? Is it too difficult to take a little time each day to be alone with God? To sit in silence and pray to Him? Gather all those minutes you waste as a rule and utilize them for the wonderful purpose of prayer and see how your life changes, how much more happiness you find, how different your fellow man appears and acts. It's worth the trial, isn't it? So pray with your family and experience greater joy in one another in your home and in God. Yes, the family that prays together stays together.  John Stevenson, Pat McGeehan and Bob Emlin. The script was written by John T. Kelly with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed and transcribed for Family Theatre by Joseph F. Mansfield. This is Larry Chatterton expressing the wish of Family Theatre that the blessing of God may be upon you and your home and inviting you to be with us again next week when Family Theatre will present Gene Lockhart. Join us, won't you? This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.


If this thing can just confirm tomorrow 3250 guys, again, look how much room we have. Again, if you believe in the theory, stocks trade from supply to supply. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccessaTrader.com, nightly wrap up show. Hope everybody is doing well. Hope everybody had a good session today. Again, I want to send good wishes and good fortune, good spirits and all that good stuff for anybody who is in the Northeast, especially in the tri-state area, we're about to get hit with like two feet of snow. So hopefully you guys have a lot of supplies, your generators are working, you have food and more important, you have your health and your family. So hopefully again, it won't be as bad as they say, but they did say up to two feet over the next day or so. So we'll see what happens. So is it finally time for the mega cap technology names to wake up? Okay, that's the million dollar question. We've seen periods of a lot of really good strength in Amazons, in Facebooks, in Apples of the World. And then also we've seen, after their initial move, we've also seen these stocks do nothing for the next two, three weeks. So it's one of those scenarios that I'm going into tomorrow's session really hopeful. Okay, I think that's the best way of saying it. And what we've seen now over the last week or so was starting to get a little bit of confidence that yes, as much as we talk about the EV names and the SPAC names and everything that goes along with it and these little biotech stocks and so forth and so on, but more important, is this finally the market? Is this finally the match that's going to light the fluid that's gonna really have a towering and furrowing effect on the first quarter of 2021 with these mega cap stocks? And we started getting those answers about a week ago and it started with Netflix, right? You guys remember Netflix was a beautiful move here and then did nothing for the last few days and then it finally woke up a couple of days ago and now it's really attempting to come out of this channel again, looks really, really good. Apple yesterday had a really big move above this 26 level, huge order flow again today. Even when the stock was taking a little bit of profit taking this morning, you start still seeing people on dips like literally on repeat going for the 130 weeklies, the 132 weeklies, we even saw some pretty good aggressive call buyers coming in for the February 145. So really good order flow there. We've been speaking about Amazon. We talked about Amazon last night. We've been talking about these levels on Amazon for a long time and finally, and again, we'll get to individual pivots in a second. This is a monster in the making. It finally reclaimed the 50 day moving average and as we started talking about last week, again, the series buyers is still there and they're coming in with really big money on the line. They're coming for the 3,200 weeklies in the money, the 3,300 weeklies. Some guys are coming in for the 3,400 weeklies and the reason why they were coming for the 3,400 weeklies is you see this little channel here. This is the last line of defense for the bears. If the bulls can reclaim this channel, this has nothing but air folks. This is literally 150 points, at least 150 points, nothing but air. So you could see slowly, but surely Microsoft, right? Kind of the same pattern as Netflix to the same pattern as Amazon, right? It's coming out of this area here. First close above supply. So really, really bullish. Chipotle got upgraded today, went absolutely bananas, right? Took out the 1360 pre-market pivot, confirmed 1385 and went all the way up to 1354 Shopify, right? On the heels of Amazon. Again, came out of this channel, confirmed this macro channel and the only reason it didn't go higher today it got stuffed at the linear regression line. But look how close it is, right? To coming out of this whole, whole channel here. So it's one trade, literally one trade at a time, one move at a time in a lot of these names, but slowly, but surely there are starting to, you know, starting to get some life. And as we say all the time, as much as it's cool, you know, trade, I can put it this way, we traded some stock today, ISR for all things. Again, it shows you how incredible this market is. This thing literally went from 45 cents to 53 on an upgrade of all things from Oppenheimer of a dollar price. So again, it does show you how much speculation, money there is still in this market.  When you see an Amazon coming out of a channel, when you see a Microsoft coming out of a channel, when Apple did a fantastic job today, put it in an inside day, you can see the volume yesterday, monster volume, a third of the volume today, it closed right at the middle of the channel here, putting an inside day, which is super duper bullish. And if this thing could just reclaim this 28, 29 level for tomorrow, this thing's gonna have upside as well. So we're set up, man, we really are set up. It's now the time for the bulls, right? The mega cap technology bulls to finally live with prosperity. That's the best way we can say it. You know, how many times have we seen through 2000? You got a big move and do nothing for three weeks. Got a big move, did nothing for three months. It's time to shine. Okay, bulls, it's time to shine. And I have to believe, and this is kind of my whole theory for 2021. I don't even remember if I even shared it. I do believe the amount of new money raised by hedge funds and index funds, right? The people who are raising money to the fourth quarter to getting new money, new customers, they have to put their money somewhere, okay? And if you are a technology fund, there's no better feel good places to go to than beta, the Facebooks of the world, the apples of the world, the Amazons of the world. So if they don't drop the ball, and I'm hoping, and again, the only thing you could do right now is just literally hope, if we could finally get a second wave of these stocks confirming today's channels for tomorrow, then we are really set up into not only a strong seasonal finish into the end of the year, but we're finally set up for these stocks coming out of bottom, right? And think about it, they're all coming out of bottom or mid basis. And if they do start confirming these prices, we should have a really aggressive year end, okay? And a very, very aggressive start for 2021. So again, fingers crossed, all we need to do is for them to reclaim tomorrow, today's channels, and I think we could get a day to run. Again, we've said that a lot of times in the last three months or so, so again, the bulls in your court do not fumble it. So let's talk about today's pivots. And again, it was very, very important to see that these things not only woke up, but woke up with a lot of option flow. Matter of fact, we started seeing towards the end of the day, a buyer came in for the December 31st, 550s on Netflix with some pretty good size. So you're starting to see not only the names are coming out, they're coming out with a lot of speculation money, betting on a future result, better on future price action. So it's very, very important. So let's talk about today. Apple almost got down to the bottom of the range here. And I talked about Apple this morning. I said, look, if it could get down to the 126 30s, it should add some pretty good support for a bounce. Unfortunately, it got down to like 126 50s and never got there and bounce. And it went red to green for a little bit, put it on a high of 128 30s, but it was kind of obvious. We talked about this in the webinar. It was probably gonna have a res day after it's really, really exaggerated move yesterday. It was good to see them not only defend the bottom range of the 60 minute channel, but actually go back to green. And again, it didn't fail today. It was just resting. So I still like Apple for tomorrow. And if it starts reclaiming channels, it's going to absolutely explode. Chipotle 1360 needs to build a $1,500 price target from Stifle, I believe. And there was also, and not only was that, right? Not only that, then I turned around and said, look, not only that, but there's a 1385 52 week high huge spot. And here was, you know, here was Chipotle, right? Here was CMG. It took out the 1360, right? Took out the 1360 pre-market range. And then it took out 1385 and it went all the way up to 1420s. Congratulations for all you guys who caught that trade. Tesla, again, we're one day away, theoretically, logically, you would think there'd be one more run up, right? And Tesla, ahead of the inclusion. But again, what we've learned a long time ago, there's no such thing as logic when it comes to trading. So again, we'll see, we'll see what happens there. Netflix, again, went at the end of the day, 525, only went to 527, I still like it. I still still like it. Again, call buyers are starting to come in. In the video, I'm convinced. Every time, I have to stop talking about the stock, okay? I'm not going to talk about this in the video anymore until it starts confirming channels. What are you waiting for, for God's sake? Just asking. Amazon was definitely the biggest move today.  So it took out this whole channel here, right? This 3192, 93 level just exploded into 3247. If this thing can just confirm tomorrow, 3250 guys. Again, look how much room we have. Again, if you believe in the theory, stocks trade from supply to supply and demand to demand, any close tomorrow above 3250, folks. And I know a lot of you guys are holding on to calls. Any close over 3250, this thing has at least 150, 200 points in it, so yeah, there's a lot of potential. You could say there's a lot of potential in Amazon. Be my still like, never got close to the $39 level today. This SPAC name I was watching, never got close there. RKT, never got close there. Chipotle, again, when that's blink, congratulations for all you guys who caught some blink. There was a PR on blink, charging, smarging, Arizona, something, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, took out the $30 area, went almost to $32 big, big move there. It still looks higher. It does still look higher for tomorrow's session. Amazon, again, like I said, any close over 3250 is epic. It portrayed it today to 3247. Apple, again, getting stronger. Again, call buyers are coming in, Feb 145 buyers are coming in, so Apple is set up just a good res day for that. By do I kind of like for a blow off top, JMIA, I kind of like going into tomorrow as well. And there was actually a really cool trade here after the close. Again, we started putting a lot of these after hours plays. The funny thing is they actually work really well on the smaller cap names. NXTD was definitely the big one this evening. NXTD took some early profit taking, came back in, reclaimed $92.93 after hours, traded all the way up to like $103 in the after hours. SLCA really didn't do anything. It traded up maybe $0.15, $0.20. It still looks higher, but again, this was specifically for the overnight play. So, we're definitely set up tomorrow. We are definitely set up obviously any week open today, tomorrow into rising 60 minutes support, especially in Amazon, especially in Apple, in Netflix as well. If they start gobbling up and defending bottom ranges, we should have another premium session for tomorrow. Guys, God bless, have a great night everybody. Please stay safe. And with God's help, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Take care guys.


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Let's talk about squatting with a band around your knees, so this is commonly prescribed as a way to fix the knees from Coming inward while you squat down like this. Okay, right they cave in sometimes they even touch I've seen it right some and and you'll see it in jumping as well. And there's a Speed component to what you're doing that position is called knee valgus. It puts more stress on the Inner aspect of the knee on the ACL on the MCL on the meniscus, right? And it pressurizes the outside portion of the knee so you can also get issues out there The fix then is to provide a Resistance to force you into that mistake so that you can feel yourself correcting it Force your knees in so that you can push your knees out now This can work pretty well for newbies right if I have never squatted before and everything I'm doing I'm just falling forward. I've got a lot of pressure on my big toe. I might have bunions I got my knees coming inward like this and it doesn't feel good That is not necessarily a bad solution to that problem But one thing that I want to point out is sometimes the issue isn't just knees in or out There are two major things that I can think to explain to you, right? So Oftentimes the knees come in because you're shifting forward.  I'll turn so you can see that a little better Sometimes this might be all you can do and then when you come down you fall forward a little bit more Weight comes off my heels weight goes on to my toes Weight goes into my ankles into my knees into the front of my hips I might have any sort of pain stuff Associated with those joints right because I'm taking away their degrees of freedom. They can't move freely and Instead they're getting overloaded with forces and with pressures so Keep in mind that it could be a forward shift that you need to fix first and the bands are not going to change it now Second thing that I want to point out is asymmetry. So if I squat down and my knees come In or they look like they come in and my left knee is out a little bit more My right knee is in a little bit more that to me is a hip shift Okay, as I turn into one leg I bring that knee in and as I turn away from the other leg. I bring that knee out Okay, I'm exaggerating it so you can see it But sometimes knees in is an oversimplification of what's actually going on sometimes It's a hip shift sometimes there is a symmetry So if I put a band around the knees I might kind of try to address this right glute and if I really emphasize it and I say hey I want you to keep the inside of this left foot down and the inside of this right foot down But I want you to push this right knee out Oftentimes if that's all you give them This left knee will come out too. So you may have to cue that as well say hey Yeah, that's really good. Keep your left knee in now. Okay, and that will start to address this hip shifting My concern is that the stress that you're putting on putting into the system into the human Into the knees that are coming in is equal on both sides And so if you need if you have an asymmetry an equal pressure is not necessarily a solution You need an asymmetrical change So I would challenge you you can watch my hip shifting video and maybe get a little better idea of what's going on here Maybe think about how can I shut off this muscle that's pulling me over to that side or this muscle? That's pushing me over to that side Instead of just pulling both my knees in maybe there's another exercise I can give you to Think a little bit more feel a little bit more about where you're actually at