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You can purchase one at a time or have a subscription model, giving you access to all the courses, courses which are well organized, have other resources like excel files and pdf files to download and no commercials. The major types of controls with relation to it and this is one of the major types of internal controls with relation to any type of process that we are going to set up. We as the auditor want to consider the system, the separation of duties that will be involved in it to understand the control system. If we were to be implementing some type of system, some type of accounting system, we would also want to be considering the separation of duties as we do so. Also note that as we think about separation of duties, there is kind of a best practices for separation of duties, but also as we have larger organizations, then of course we'll have an increase in the separation of duties. So again, if you're thinking about a large publicly traded company, you're going to have a lot more separation involved as you would with a small type of organization. When we are considering the implementation or testing of internal controls, we have to consider the size of the organization to determine what the appropriate number of internal controls will be. Also note that as an organization grows, you're going to need more people involved and those people might not be as tightly knit and therefore you might need a more kind of separation of duties involved within it as well. The goal of the separation of duties is going to have those key points within the process that we're talking about revenue recognition here where there could be errors or there could be fraud to take place. That's where we want the separation or segregation of duties so that we have at least two people involved in those processes and therefore they're less likely to make an error that would be catched by those two people and if fraud was wanting to be committed, it would take two people to collude to work together in order to consciously commit the fraud. So the fact that there would be two people involved makes it less likely for it to take place. So here's going to be our table. We've got the revenue and accounts receivable function here. So that's going to be on the left column and then we're going to have the entities or the parts of the organization that will be involved in it, including the order entry, credit, shipping, accounts receivable, cash receipts, IT and the treasurer. So these are the people or organizations or places within the organization that will be involved in the processing of these functions and we're going to see the separation as we go. So we have the receiving and preparing of customers orders that's going to be in order entry. Then the approving credit done separately within credit and then we have the shipping goods to customers and completing shipping documents. That's going to be separate again, shipping department. Then we have the preparing of the customer invoice, the preparing of the customer invoice against separate. We have the accounts receivable, which may be aided by the IT department, depending on how the IT system is set up. Then we have the updating of accounts receivable records for sales, the updating again accounts receivable assisted by IT as necessary. Then we have the receiving the customer remittance. So that's going to be that little remittance form that's going to be coming back along with the check, hopefully that we would receive in the mail that's received separately by the cash receipts. So now we have a separate person involved of the receipt of the remittance. And then the updating of the accounts receivable records is going to be separately done by once again accounts receivable. So you could see the handling here of the remittance separate from the updating of the records. And then we have the and that's of course going to help with any kind of problems that hopefully with regards to misappropriation or errors or some type of fraud with regards to the receipt. And then we've got the preparing accounts receivable age trial balance. Once again, the accounts receivable aging trial balance, the kind of the subsidiary type of ledger by an aging report done by the accounts receivable and assisted by IT if necessary as necessary. Authorize accounts receivable write off. So what about the write off process of accounts receivable meaning when we determine that accounts receivable is going to be bad debt, we're going to write it off to bad debt. Again, that's another area that we want to be concerned about make sure that we have separation of duty in because we can imagine a situation where that could be a problem or a place where fraud could take place. And that's going to be done separately by authorization by the treasurer. So you could see our process here. Now notice there's a lot of people involved here. This would be a fairly extensive type of organization within the accounts receivable process to have this many components involved in a smaller type of organization, we may have less controls, and we want to basically be able to consider what types of controls are going to be necessary, all companies should have some degree of control, even if we don't have a couple employees, we want to have some degree of control. The question is, what's the appropriate level of controls with regard to the size and format and industry of the industry?


From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, it's theCUBE, covering empowering the autonomous enterprise, brought to you by Oracle Consulting. Welcome back everybody to this special presentation of theCUBE, where we're covering the rebirth of Oracle Consulting. It's a digital event where we're going out, we're extracting the signal from the noise we have, and today to be in Chicago, which is obviously the center of the country, a lot of big customers here, a lot of consultants and consulting organizations here, a lot of expertise. Mike Owens is here as a Group VP for Cloud Advisory and a general manager of Oracle Elevate. Mike, thanks for coming on theCUBE. I appreciate it, I'm glad to be here. So I can ask you, Elevate in your title, what is Oracle Elevate? Yeah, Oracle Elevate was actually announced to Oracle OpenWorld last year, and it's the partnership that we really had to actually take our scale to the next level. So we actually did it with Deloitte Consulting. So the goal is to actually take the capabilities of both organizations. Deloitte really has functional capabilities and expertise with an Oracle practice, and obviously Oracle has Oracle technical expertise. The combination of the two really allows us to scale, provides what I call the one plus one equals three effort for customers. Now you've got a decent timeline or observation over the past several years, I think you joined three years ago, you were at some brand name companies. First of all, what attracted you to come to Oracle Consulting? Yeah, absolutely. So Oracle was in the point where they were doing a lot of stuff around on-premise software, right? The old ERP type stuff, they were doing cloud, they sort of had to have this sort of transformational moment. I was asked to come in and Oracle Consulting in the early days and say, hey look, we're trying to transform the organization from on-prem consulting over to cloud consulting. Come in and help us with this stuff that you've worked from your prior to cloud companies and help us really move the organization forward and look at things differently. So it's definitely been a journey over the last three years of taking it from really 85% to 90% of our revenue around on-prem type of engagements so now actually splitting the organization and being dedicated 100% on cloud, which is just a huge transformation the last three years. What really, what's the underpinning of Gen2 cloud? Can you give us sort of the bumper sticker on that? Yeah, well the underpinning of Gen2 cloud is really, if you look at the Gen1 cloud it was purely just an infrastructure layer. Gen2 is really based on a segmenting security which is a huge problem out in the marketplace, right? So we actually have a sort of a world-class way we take a segment security outside of the actual environment itself. It's completely segmented, which is awesome, right? But then the also when you actually move it forward the capability of the entire thing is built on sort of the autonomous enterprise or autonomous capabilities. Everything is sort of self-healing, self-funding, or not sorry, self-healing and self-aware that continually moves it forward. So the goal with that is is if you have something that takes mundane tasks back to that you have people that are no longer doing those capabilities today. So the underpinning of that and what that allows you to do is actually take that business case and you reduce that because you're no longer having a bunch of people do things that are no value at. Those people can actually move on to do back to that innovation and doing those higher level components. So the business case is really about, I mean, primarily I would imagine about labor cost, right? IT labor cost, we're very labor intensive. We're doing stuff that doesn't necessarily add differentiation and value to the business. You're shifting that to other tasks, right? Yeah, so the big components are really the overall cost of the infrastructure, what it takes to maintain the infrastructure and that's broken up into kind of two components. One of it is typical power, physical location of building, all those kinds of things and then the people that do the automations that take care of that, right? At the lower level. The third level is as you continue to get sort of process and automation going forward, the people capability that actually maintains the applications becomes easier because you can actually extend those capabilities out into the application. Then you require fewer people to actually do the typical day to day things whether it's DBAs, et cetera like that. So it kind of becomes a continuous stream. There's various elements of the business case. You could sort of start with just the pure infrastructure cost and then get some of the process and automations going forward and then actually go that even further, right? And then as organizations as a CIO, one of the questions I always have is where do you want to end on this? And they say, well, what are you talking about? All right? It's really, I'm like. We're never done.  I go, this is the big boy, big girl conversation, right? Do you want to have an organization that actually is stays the same from the headcount standpoint? Are you trying to look to a partner to do the, were you trying to get in your operating model? What is your company trying to get you to look at, right? Because all those inflection points takes a different step in the cloud journey. So as an advisor, as a trusted advisor, I asked those are half a dozen or so questions. I would kind of walk your organization through on sort of the cloud strategy and I'll pick the path that kind of works with them. And if they want to go to a managed service provider at the end, we would actually prepare someone either bring the partner in or have an associated partner we had put it off to, but we put the right pieces in place to make sure that that business cake works. Well, that's interesting. That's a really important point because a lot of customers would say, I don't want to reduce headcount. I want to, I'm starving for people. I want to train people. You know, some companies may want to say, hey, okay, I got to reduce headcount. It's a mandate, but most, at least in these boom times are saying, I want to shift. So my point to the business case is if you're not going to cut people, then you have to have those people be more productive. And so the example that you gave in terms of making the application developers more productive is relevant. And I want to explain this is that for example, very simple example, I'm inferring, you're going to be able to compress the time to value.  That's an example of a value component to the business and part of the business case. Do people look at that and is that real? Absolutely. That's what it is. Definitely in the business case, and when you get your rate of return, right? The more that we can compress that, and I would say back to the conversation we had earlier about Elevate and some of the partnerships we have with Deloitte around that, a lot of that is to actually come up with enough capabilities that we can actually take the business case and actually reduce that and have special other things we can do for our customers around financing and things like that to make it easier for them, right? We have options to make customers and actually help that business case. Some of the business cases we've seen are entire IT organizations saving 30 plus percent. Well, if you multiply that on a large Fortune 100 that may have a billion dollar budget, that's real money. Yeah, and okay, yes, no doubt, but then when you translate that into the business impact, like you're talking about the IT impact, but if you look at the business impact now it becomes telephone numbers. And actually CFOs oftentimes just don't even believe it, but it's true. Because if you can make the entire organization just a half a percentage point more productive and you get 100,000 employees, I mean that overwhelms actually the IT business case. Yeah, and that's where that, back to the steps in the business case is on the business and application side is making those folks actually more productive in the business case and saving them and adding whether it's a financial services and you're getting an application out to market that actually generates revenue, right? So it's sort of the trickle effect. So when I look at it, I definitely look at it from an IT all the way through business.  Yeah, and IT enables that sort of business transformation. How do you, let's talk about this notion of continuous improvement. How are people thinking about that? Because you're talking a lot about just sort of self-funding and self-progressing, sort of an organic entity that you're describing. How are people thinking about that? Yeah, and I would say they're kind of a little bit older map, right? But I would say that the goal is what we're trying to embed back to the operating model we wanna really embed is sort of the concept of the cloud set of excellence. And as part of that, at the end, you have to have a set of functionality of folks that's constantly looking at the applications and or services of the different cloud providers that capability you have across the board. Everyone's got a multi-cloud environment, right? How do they take those services? They're probably already paying for it anyways.  Those little automation pieces continually add innovation in smaller chunks. And that's really the goal of cloud computing, and you know, as you can actually break it up, it's no longer the big bang theory, right? And I love that concept, embedding that, whether you actually have a partner with some of the stuff that we're doing that actually embed what we call like a day two services that that's what it is, is to support them, but constantly look for different ways to include capabilities that were just released to add value on an ongoing basis. You don't have to go, hey, great, that capability came out, it'll be a next year's release. No, it could be next week, it could be next month, right? Well, so the outcome should be, you should be dramatically lowering costs, really accelerating your time to value. It really is what you're describing, and we've been talking about in terms of the autonomous enterprise, it's really a prerequisite for scale, isn't it? It is, absolutely. Like, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE, really appreciate it, good stuff. Everything, thank you very much. All right, and thank you for watching, but right back with our next guest, you're watching theCUBE, we're here in Chicago covering the rebirth of Oracle Consulting. I'm Dave Vellante, we're right back.


Sexy fragrances that drive women wild. Part three. Gentlemen, welcome back. My name is Kevin Samuels. In today's video, we're gonna do part three of my sexy fragrances that drive women wild. This is my anecdotal list. List that I've actually compiled from fragrances that I've worn out around the world, around the country, that I know women just lose their mind over. I will say for me, it works. Your mileage may vary, but for me, it works. You guys know I love Rose, Amber, and Ood. But I also gotta tell you, incense and musk have a particular impact on women, and we're gonna get the list started off with none other than... Shout out to the CIA. You wanna love FBI? You wanna become part of the movement? Make sure you join me on Patreon for exclusive video and live stream content. Join me on that platform for things you will only see there. Details down in the description. Armani incense satin. Amber incense masterpiece. Sadly, I think this has been discontinued.  Especially if you're dressed in jeans and a nice v-neck cashmere sweater or a turtleneck, some boots, a leather jacket outside on a cool day. This stuff is hypnotic and drives women. Absolutely wild. Next up from Louis Vuitton, we have none other than Embraer Nomade. I'm sorry that you can't get your hands on it, but I'm glad I have it. This is the beast mode of a rose-oot masculine fragrance. There's nothing weak about this stuff. Every fragrance on this list drips masculinity, and Embraer Nomade is no exception. And when I'm out and about wearing this, I feel bad for the guys because they're automatically competing for second place. This wins hands down. Next up from the master, we have none other than Tuscan Leather. But I'm also gonna put from Louis Vuitton, we're gonna put Nouveau Monde. Both of these fragrances kind of fit together. Tuscan Leather is a raspberry leather fragrance that works well, especially when you're dressed in a more formal, more special occasion or leather jacket. Nouveau Monde and Tuscan Leather are very similar, except that one has a little cacao in it. Some people like that more than Tuscan Leather, but I will tell you, and I have a decanted that one between this and Tuscan Leather, they both work. They drive women nuts. Next up from Roja Dove, we have none other than Musk Oud. This is the AP version, and I'm sorry guys, your mileage may vary, but I will say this, Musk has always been a sexy fragrance note. Whether you just wear Musk by itself, it was overdone in the 70s, so a lot of people just don't wear it these days. But Musk is magical, especially on masculine skin. Women are drawn to this.  I walk in, and I'm like, ah, because this stuff lasts forever, and it evolves, it cooks so well. Musk Oud AP, another fragrance that drive women nuts. All right, next up from the Master Tom Ford, we have none other than Tobacco Oud, or Effin Fabulous. I know a lot of people don't like Effin Fabulous, but I'm gonna tell you, you gotta understand who was made for and what it was made to do. The candle is fantastic, the fragrance is fantastic, because it gets women's attention. I've heard more women say, God, I love the way that guy smells on a guy. That's just reality, guys. The reality, Effin Fabulous works. So does Tobacco Oud. I made a video talking about great one night stand fragrances. I said this fragrance smells like liquor, cigarettes, and bad decisions. Guys, Tobacco Oud just smells like a man. It's harsh, it's brutal, it's right in your face, and women love it. Women love it. Tobacco Oud, Tom Ford, Effin Fabulous, Tom Ford, both. Eggs benedict approved. Next up from By Killin, we have Dark Lord. Vettiver, Jasmine, Rom. This fragrance did not get a lot of love when it first came out. You can't put this just on paper. You have to put it on your skin, wear it for about 20 minutes, especially when you're just more formally on a leather jacket. That's what you're noticing here, a formal or leather jacket. And see what happens. Guys, this stuff should be outlawed. It is so good. Especially around feminine women. Feminine women love men to smell masculine. And this is one of the most masculine fragrances of the last several years. Works so well. By Killin, Dark Lord, yes please. Next on the list from House of Matriarch, we have Blackfin, number one. Fragrance Foundation actually voted the world's sexiest fragrance for good reason. The note breakdown is ridiculously long, but again, smells like leather and incense to me, guys. I would say this, when I've sat at the bar or something, I've had people come over to me and say, what in the world are you wearing? Blackfin, number one. And the fact that it's so exclusive, now a lot of people wear it and it's natural, kind of organic, even better. Drives women wild. Next on the list from Francis Kirk-Jean, we have none other than Ood Silk Mood Extract-a-Pompom. The funny thing is, satin mood gets more love. But this gets better reactions. Very simple fragrance. Beast mode of a fragrance, another one of those that takes 20 or 30 minutes to dry down and the magic happens. But gentlemen, I tell you, this is magical. I've had, again, some of the most feminine, beautiful women just sit back, even on my channel, they've come on on video and say, I love the way this smells on a man. Yep, Ood, satin mood, extract-a-pompom. A little dab would do you, cause this stuff is strong and it works. And last, but certainly not least on the list, we have none other than Dior-Om-Pompom. Dior-Om-Pompom, three notes. What? Sandalwood, leather, and iris, simply beast mode of a sexy, masculine fragrance. Guys, trust me, it simply works. It simply works and women are drawn to it. I've had women drooling over the way this smells. And none of the fragrances on this list can be confused for women's or feminine fragrances. Women dig these on your skin and will automatically take you and increase your testosterone. Even if you're a guy that a higher pitched voice it may be kind of corny.  If you like this kind of video, go ahead and share it out with somebody and you think you can use the information. Thanks for watching. Thanks for subscribing. Until next time, talk to you later. Godfather out. Hey guys, whether look, style, or life, whether personal or professional, you can level up and be your personal best each and every day. If you're interested in any of that, do us both a favor, follow the link in the description and book your one-on-one session with me. Details down in the description. Peace.


Good morning and thank you all for being here for our Thanksgiving dinner packing and distribution event you know today's been a very uplifting day where our community partners and our business partners have all come together you know they all showed up today to help stuff a thousand bags with sites to go along with either turkey or Cornish hen and then later our amazing community resource officers are going to deliver those meals to a thousand families that have been identified in the communities that they serve you know Thanksgiving is of course a time you know where we want to reflect on what we're thankful for and I'm certainly thankful for our great partners at the Denver Police Foundation AT&T we don't waste as well as Walmart I'm also thankful for our volunteers our Denver police officers who all showed up today to help us stuff these thousand bags and lastly I'm thankful to those in our community who share with us their lived experience and let us know opportunities where we can where we can help them when they're in need particularly in the holiday season so at this time I'd like to specifically recognize Guillermo Lombari the director of external affairs at external at AT&T Colorado Guillermo. Thank you Chief. Wow so yes definitely an uplifting morning it's really incredible to see the partnership and how those bags came together I mean it was a thousand bags and they put them together in an hour and we have some wonderful AT&T volunteers here as well that helped with that so very exciting it's the fourth year AT&T has partnered with the Denver Police Foundation to help provide these meals and it's something that we're extremely proud of as the Chief said Thanksgiving is such a special holiday all about being with family and community and these meals will allow for the officers to connect with those families and communities and in addition allow those families to have a proper Thanksgiving meal to sit down you know that night and enjoy together so we're really really grateful to be able to provide that you know we know that families continue to rely on AT&T in our networks to stay closer to home for safety for learning for business and relying on our technology and network more than ever before before to stay connected to families and friends at AT&T we build networks that help connect both families businesses as well as first responders with our through our first net network which is a nationwide build network dedicated to to first responders across the country through the AT&T foundation we support local nonprofits to drive economic empowerment and equity including our digital divide efforts across Colorado and AT&T employee volunteer efforts across the state so we hope today that our $15,000 contribution to the Denver Police Foundation and our volunteer efforts around this Thanksgiving outreach event with the department truly make a difference they have created many wonderful outreach programs the foundation has and are helping build bridges in the Denver community at a time when it's truly needed the Denver Police Department sees the challenges families face every single day the distribution of this of these meals can be shared by families is a sincere act of kindness especially as many as many families are finding it harder and harder to make ends meet we're very thankful for the work of the police department the foundation for all you guys do for our communities keeping us safe we're extremely grateful for that so at this time I want to hand it over to Megan Pletcher who's the executive director of the foundation and wish you all a happy holiday thank you thank you Guillermo the Denver Police Foundation is pleased to support Chief Thomas and the Denver Police Department's mission to support our community in creating trust through our programming this event is absolutely one of our favorite to sponsor as it does as Guillermo said helps to meet our community where they're at in their time of need and not their time of crisis that truly is important and critical in making sure that we as law enforcement and our police department are meeting our community in their time of need we're so grateful to Walmart as well and we don't waste further support in this event as we would not be able to source a thousand turkeys and full meals without their support so again we are grateful to our community partners all of our volunteers and our law enforcement officers for what you do on a daily base thank you curious you mentioned this a little bit before about the distribution can you go to a little bit more detail how are these families found and was the process going to be like yeah so you know every district has community resource officers they also have a homeless outreach teams that literally connect with families every day and understand their challenges understand their needs and quite frequently they actually come across families that have various needs whether it's you know connection to services to help pay rent or purchase food or things like that and so I'm really grateful to the work that they do every single day you know connecting with the community and particularly identifying families that have specific needs and so they found like I said a thousand families that have these specific needs that we're going to be able to meet for Thanksgiving and so you know we've stepped those thousand bags and pretty soon we're going to get to work to delivering all those meals how does that how does that affect the relationship well I think that you know it shows a couple of things one I think it shows that we're part of that community we certainly care about that community and and you know we're not just here to you know police the community and force rules we really want to see the community be supported yes so you know again we you know we take donations from Walmart from AT&T certainly the different police foundation has been a significant partner in all of our endeavors and so we all come together you know and donate these particular funds for this event and then you know and then the officers go and make the distribution


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to a new Zor education. This is the lecture number four in the mini series about different inverse trigonometric functions. This is about arc cotangent. Now, before talking about arc cotangent, as usually in case of inverse functions, I have to talk about the original cotangent function. And then we will talk about how to define its inverse. So the definition of the cotangent is traditionally cosine over sine. So let's build the graph of this thing. So first cosine, which is this, cosine is symmetrical relatively to the y-axis. It's an even function, and this is pi over 2, this is pi, and this is 3pi over 2. This is minus pi over 2, this is minus pi, minus 3pi over 2. So that's my cosine. Now sine starts with 0 and goes to the maximum of 1 here, and then goes down, and then goes to minus 1. Here, whenever it's 0, it's minus 1, and it goes to 0 and the plus. So that's the sine. Now let's divide one by another. Well, let's start from 0. Function cotangent at 0 has an asymptote because the denominator is equal to 0. Now both numerator and denominator are positive, which means it's a plus infinity. Now the next point is this one, and that's where the cosine is equal to 0 and sine is equal to 1. This is cosine and this is sine. So the result of the division will be 0, so we will have this. And then I have another asymptote at pi when sine is again is equal to 0. Now cosine is around minus 1, which means starting from this point, the result, the cotangent will be negative because the cosine is negative and sine is positive, so it will go like this. Now obviously it's periodically repeating itself, so I'm not going to draw anything. What's important is we have to choose the domain for the new function cotangent where we can actually find out what's the angle knowing the value of the function. Because if I have all the components, if I have the function cotangent defined everywhere from minus infinity to plus infinity, then we have no way to determine what's the angle if we know the function, so we cannot inverse the function. Because for every value I will have more than one, well actually infinite number of angles cotangent of which is equal to that value. So what I have to do, I have to reduce my domain from all the real numbers to only the place where I know that the function is inversible and in this case the perfect area is from 0 to pi. So let's wipe out everything else. So we will define a brand new function which we will also call cotangent, but it's a new cotangent which is defined only on this interval from 0 to pi, not including the boundary, so obviously because the function is undefined at 0 and at pi. Now what's the range of this function? Well obviously all numbers from minus infinity to plus infinity. Now here on this particular domain with this particular range we can invert the function. We can define what's the inverse function because for every value of the function we have only one unique value of the argument. So from y we can find out x. So in this case we can talk about inverse function called arc cotangent of x. Now its domain would be the same as the range of this function which is y which is from minus infinity to plus infinity. Now its range what's the variance the angle can take if the variance of cotangents such and such. Well from 0 to pi we have already defined this. Now the question is how the function looks like. Well we know that the graphs of the function and its inverse are symmetrical relatively to the angle bisector. So we have to turn our graph around this line. So how would it look? Well these two asymptotes would be turned to the horizontal one. So let's wipe out our sine and cosine which we don't really need anymore and this one. Now let's just draw. So this asymptote would turn into the horizontal asymptote on the level of pi. Now this piece would go into this. This is pi over 2. This is pi over 2. So it would be approximate. So this is a graph of the function arc cotangent. I draw it based on the symmetry between the graph of the function and the graph of the inverse function. I have reduced my original function cotangent to the area from 0 to pi where its monotonically decreasing from plus infinity to minus infinity as the angle goes from 0 to pi not including 0 and pi not including the boundaries. And the inverse function has the domain which corresponds to the range of the original function. The range is all real numbers. And the inverse function has the range which corresponds to the domain of the original function. So that's the definition. And again you can actually express it in words. So what is the angle cotangent of which is x? That's basically the definition of the inverse function. And again from 0 to pi you can always determine what exactly is that particular angle. Well that's it. That's the brief introduction into what function arc cotangent is. I do recommend you to go to Unisor.com website. Read again the notes for this particular lecture. It's really simple. All we really have to understand is the general behavior of the function, its range and its domain. That's basically it. All the problems related to this will be in the future. Don't worry about that for now. So thanks very much and good luck.


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My name is Michelle Singer. I'm the program assistant for Palm City. I work with the fabulous Rachel Central. We probably just saw a walk through the door to make Palm City happen. So this year we have over 400 homes from over 75 Vermont cities and towns in a hundred venues downtown and 44 readings and presentations of which this is one. So welcome to Palm City. I wanna thank the sponsors of Palm City, the National Life Group Foundation, Vermont Humanities Council, Hunger Mountain Co-op, the Vermont College of Fine Arts and the Poetry Society of Vermont. Tonight we get to hear the poetry of the flow group of poets, flows of the group of poets which are four left-handers and one right. Okay. Tonight we have the pleasure of hearing Mary Elder Jacobson, Andrea Koold and Jesse Lavasco. You may have seen Mary Elder Jacobson at the Whitman Allowed reading earlier this month and you can catch her tomorrow night. That's a, yeah, fair, fun. Where she'll be reading with others from a new anthology called Healing the Divide Poems of Kindness and Connection. And you may have seen Andrea at the afternoon poetry with local Jewish poets at Beth Jacobson about yesterday. And you can catch Jesse Lavasco's work, both her art and poetry at the North Branch Nature Center and a reception for her works on Wednesday, April 24th at 5 p.m. And she wrote her book for sale tonight, so. Lots of praise to see this great woman. So please welcome me, enjoying them tonight. Hey, Michelle, and thank you, Rachel, for all that you've done to make Home City what it is. So I'm gonna start with just seeing Lisa Mazze and I have been writing poetry together for 14 years. Once a month, no matter what. And I actually moved away and we still do it either FaceTime or open the phone. But after about 10 years, we decided, or I decided, let's extend this, let's bring in some more people to get some more feedback on our work and do more exercises, get other perspectives. So I invited Susie Atwood, Mary Jacobson, Andrea Gould. And our first exercise that we did when we were sitting down at the table, I realized I was finished first and I looked around and I'm like, they're all writing with their left hand. Oh my gosh, this is so weird. So when they were done, I said, I don't know if you all know this, but you're all left-handers and I'm the only right-handed one, so why don't we call our group four left, one right, but W-R-I-D. So then we decided the acronym flow and that's where that came from. So I'm going to read Lisa's poems tonight. She is on a family trip to Greece and I have the honor of reading her work. So the first poem is on purpose and it's an experience she had while walking. We were walking together, I guess. This is what she told me and it was slippery and I see it's something that I said and made her feel like she could, it was a metaphor for no matter what the challenge was, she could still move forward. It's called on purpose. Everywhere snow decorates branches with delicate lace, muddles the edge between field and forest, sepia as a Charlie Chaplin reel.  Here, ice creaks under my feet, warning of the slip dance beneath. Heart searches, I stiffen. Then traverse the frozen layer, slide along, lean into it and hear your voice gently burging me on. Turkey tracks appear in my path, arrows scattered across white expanse leading the way. And the next one is called speeding and she actually got a ticket while she was so enamored with the spring outburst of color and chartreuse and she wasn't paying attention to the speedometer.  I see the blue lights flashing and I know if they are for me. I pull over. I have you going 32 and a 25, he says. Forgive me, father, for I have sinned, sinned because I let out the clutch. So gravity could carry me downhill, summer wind sweet in my hair. Sinned because I glanced at hostas in purple bloom beside a yellow Victorian. Sinned because I sang along with the radio as Bob Dylan earnestly made the case for Medgar Evers. I apologize, I reply handing over the requisite documents. As I wait for my verdict, I don't dare open the library book I just picked up. Go through the pile of mail on the passenger seat or God forbid, jot down a poem. I wait, penitent, after what seems like a century, he approaches my car window. I'm going to give you a warning this time, ma'am. When did I become ma'am? It must be atonement for my sins. Thank you, I drive away, wishing I had not thanked him. And the next one is we sometimes, when we do our monthly exercise, we will read poems from other poets and we will find one line that really speaks to us and then we'll write up, that will be our inspiration for a poem exercise. So this one was to him, but Jess from the book Infernal, and it's called just to claim a small part of my people's anger in his Kodak. What's worth keeping? If no one had told you your grandmother wasn't stable, refused her lithium and kept a kitchen drawer stuffed with packages of cream filled chocolate cupcakes, you might have looked back on that time with the fondness that some have for their memories. You could never have imagined that Wednesday afternoon spent shaping dough into pumpkin ravioli and raising escrow with poppy in your apartment kitchen could end. What if it didn't matter that your parents left to spend a year in Somalia, took you from cobblestone Ferrara to live with estranged grandparents in Kansas? What would remain of those days, eating boiled hot dogs with pickle relish and white buns, going barefoot into the backyard, crouching down for mint, eating it but not daring to show it to your second grade classroom. When you returned to Italy, it was not you who emerged but a stunned girl wearing the delicate gold bracelet her father gave her as though to make up for it all, a third grader who stayed after school until she memorized her timetables. And I just wanna say all these three poems, this was published in Jet Car Press, speeding was published in Landia Press, and on purpose was published in course card poems. So now our next reader will be Mary Elter Jacobson. And she is a very thoughtful, talented and dedicated word crafter and poet. And sometimes she even sits on her bed at night with her computer and all her research source books scattered about her like children and she crafts her poems that way. I always thought that was really cool that she does that. So she's, as Michelle said, she's in several of the publicity events this year and she has published in the remembered arts journal, Cold Mountain Review and the Green Mountain Review to name a few. Please welcome Mary Jacobson. No computer on the bed, I just gotta correct that. Sometimes I've had it only when my husband's out of town. He's a writer journalist, so he's doing a lot traveling. And then the bed is filled with books. So we're having this weird musical introduction today because Susan Atwood also couldn't be here. She had a course that she wanted to take and suddenly conflicted. So I'm gonna read some of her poems. And first, I guess I just wanna thank Jesse for forming this whole group that we have because I'll be honest, when I first went, I thought, well, maybe I'll go to one, but I'm not sure, you know, I'm gonna. And the women are so great and I think it's been three years now, is that right? Which is part of it. And Jesse has moved away, but she keeps coming back. And so we always schedule so that she can be there. So Susan Atwood lives on some land up County Road. And a lot of her poems come from her relationship with her own animals, domestic animals or wild animals. And I was asking her, does anyone know in particular who you'd like me to say to introduce you? And she mentioned that she's always read and loved poetry, but then she said this one thing, which I just found so moving. She's working on getting her masters in counseling. And she was required to submit and write in what she does for ongoing self-care. And she noted, and this is what she said, I noted that I read at least or read at least one poem a day and on the occasions that I don't, for any length of time, I begin to lose contact with what illuminates the world for me. Which I thought was really beautiful. And I was more nervous tonight about reading someone else's words than my own. But she gave nine to choose from and I chose three, so that made me easier. Speaking of animals, her first poem that I'm gonna read is called The Fate of Roosters. And it begins with the word Parahito, which is Spanish for little bird. Can you guys hear me all right? Of course. Parahito emerged splendid from among the downy chicks, a feathered tapestry, gilt, teal, blue and cinnamon, a fiery crown of red. He struts and shimmers iridescent as he crows and eyes the yard for foes, mounts his hens, holds forth a raucous jewel in paradise, where I named him little bird. To remind him there's an order, a fox and hawk, a danger. Then today he turned his reptilian gaze on me, followed by his new formed spurs, and the world was out of order. Was I predator or hen? So now I brood on husbandry and two on paradise and contemplate the fate of roosters, a fox and hawk, a danger. And so am I, and so am I. This one I chose, because it's where we hopefully are, it's called Winter's End. Yes. Yes. No, please. Although we're supposed to get a little snow tonight, I heard. Winter's End. Just when the restlessness of Winter's End, its broken promises and rain and frosted tips of plum and pear succumb to spring. My own desire buds from deep within, all patients spent, I slip into the garden and dig, bare-handed in the cool soil, thinking green and fertile thoughts about these seeds I plant, made whole by doing the one thing that still makes sense in this uncertain world. This poem is called Openings.  I felt it again yesterday, walking along the shore, picking berries washed by the sun. The soft green grasses swaying, the waves dancing, the gentle inviting wind breathing playfully in my ear. And back home, in a large jar on my desk, I studied a pupating moth, who only last week was a big, fat, green caterpillar. Now still, leaf bundled, tucked into its private moment of change. And I thought, how does it breathe? And so I discovered the word, spirituals, meaning breath, spirit, that describes, among other things, the openings through which caterpillars, cocoons, butterflies, caves, volcanoes, whales, and yes, souls, breathe, perhaps in the form of a small child, who, if I bend to listen, tells me something I otherwise might have missed. That has worked by Susan Atwood. She is working on putting a master's in counseling right now. Three of my own poems. The first poem is up at the drawing board, which I was excited about, because it's a good match. This poem is called, On the Plain Air, which is the French term for painting or drawing outside. You know, some of you in this room might have had to do with where that poem got on, but I'm not sure which one of you was. I have an art background, and then in the fall I was trying to get revved up again and do more drawing. So I took a class with Susan Sawyer at the Studio Place Arts, and it was a great way to spend the dark November evenings. Anyway, this poem kind of came out of that, and out of the field near my house. On Plain Air, the plow draws furrows and contour lines across the hillside from north to south, as yellow ochre umber leaves fall from trees, curling downward like fine pencil shavings. And Sun, lost in her own gradation studies, sets down her graphite marks in varying degrees, dark and darker, darker still, until long shadows stretch from ridgeline trees to cut the fields with cross-hatched strokes that limb from west to east at end of day to highlight furrows in such enviable ways the artist only dreams of mimicking one day. Another outdoor poem. We have some fields in the front and back of our house, and where this poem came from was one day I looked out and I saw movement, something fluffy, white, and it was late summer, early fall, and I mistook what I saw were deer's tails. Wild in the meadow, wild in the meadow, how all at once they twitch white tufted tails, and then wind blown, bend down, now nearly hidden, for a minute lost in chest high switchgrass, in gusts of wind, summer's musky air, dusk. I've grown to think each year of this as ours, this perennial herd, neither ruminant nor ungulate this herd, and yet how like them to keep returning, to let me witness how in our field they stretch and nudge and knows about rise up, grow wild, grow tame, hold still, lie down again, and every time my surprise is less what they are not or are than who I am become will be among them. How knowing from deciphering this is to watch myself grown lost in this to-do of Queen Anne's lace, to stand again startled here by every breath, to stare and stare, to wait and see each year how they've come back, how wild, how they scatter. That poem is gonna be in an online journal called The Remembered Arts Journal. I'm told on June 1st. It's a really great journal for anybody who's starting to submit things. I think the woman is very responsive and they are really great at, it seems like they publish certain people from all walks of life or levels of writing and let you kind of define who you are. And they have themes and they had a theme that was weeds. So I thought, oh, I don't know. So I said that, and she chose that. And the last poem, my writing group has not heard yet, but I think I'll bring it to the next. So you guys can all be my writing group tonight.  Or you know, this could be clear or something you can tell me. So this is called The CSEA of Poetry. And it's for Elizabeth Spires, who was my first writing teacher in the first writing workshop I ever took, which was my last semester of my senior year of college. And I'm still in touch with her. And in fact, I think she's the only female teacher I've ever had her writing poetry. There is a beautiful poem called First Lesson by a poet named Philip Booth, which is a poem of reassurance and encouragement to a daughter. And it has a sort of teaching how to swim kind of metaphor about it. So I use a little epigraph from that for this poem that is about receiving encouragement in poetry. So the epigraph is from First Lesson by Philip Booth. Lie gently and wide to the light-years stars. Lie back and the sea will hold you. The sea of poetry. It's sparkle catches my eye. Can I? May I go closer? You stood nearby. I could hear your voice. The breezes blew in and whispered, we're sweet, we're salt. The waves rolled in and lessened to not intimidate. And then the words you said to me, yes, you may. I tiptoed into the shallows. I wanted to stay. Poetry laughed my toes. My bare souls tickled as it trickled under over around. I wriggled in that same spot, amazed. I was sinking in as the laugh, laugh, lapping kept happening then. Later on, I'm wading in, no deeper than my knees. I splash and sing, it's all ring around the rosy. Soon, I'm in up to my waist. I can see over most waves, can swim some, can stand and wave to shore. I lie back and float, look up, let go, take in sun and clouds, the sky, all it holds. I bob up and down. I think how I'm held too. Out here in the deep, I am something to see. I can touch the sea floor and still float free. I can see that I'm the buoy I'm now swimming to. That's me. Andrea Gould is gonna read you some of her poems. And I was thinking about introducing Andrea and I actually thought that Queen Anne's Lace was the perfect kind of metaphor because Queen Anne's Lace is Queen Anne's Lace or it's wild carrot and so it's either very beautiful and diverse and grace-filled and it's also very rooted and earthy. And I think that Andrea and her poetry are like that strong and graceful and deeply rooted. And she comes from a background of poetry support. Her husband and her father-in-law are poets and I believe it's mutual support among them. And I really enjoy getting to know the wide scope of her poetry as much as the details of her rich life. And when I read The Wall, but recently there was a little phrase in it that made me think that Andrea's very humble and modest. She says she's a beginner, but while living in one part of the song of myself, he refers to himself as a novice beginning yet experienced of myriads of seasons. Here's Andrea Gould. I'm gonna start with the poem that I have that's in poem city is at number nine boutique. So I'm gonna start with that one. So if you wanna go look at it, you can read it again. This one is called For David, 1950 to 2012.  You were cubes of rosy tuna dipped in shiru mixed with green mustard.  You were jellied fish eggs, oranges, marigolds, glistening like jewels, sweet, salty, slippery. You were a shoji screen, rice paper, framed by a lattice of bamboo, hiding your interior spaces. Mysterious is our brief marriage until I read your obituary years later, survived by partner Brad. This one, we always do an exercise. We rotate who is been, it's usually it's who's house you're at, but they hardly overcome to my house because I'm kind of out of the way. But yeah, we like to come to yours in the summer. She's right, I occurred his pond. So we did an exercise where I had lots and lots of books of art and paintings and all kinds of art. People picked a painting and wrote a poem about a painting. So I wrote about a painting called White Bull by a painter whose name is Resika, who nobody's ever heard of. It was painted in 1984, he's still alive. I always love this painting, White Bull. White stucco house, taller than wide, two windows in a door, like a face, like a person startled and saying oh, like a person wondering why the white bull is turning away. Perhaps he is watching his mate or a newborn calf, or here's the rumble of thunder beyond the light gray mountains, or is resting for a moment on a sea of orange poppies under the bleached sky. The last one I'm gonna read is a true story about a chicken that my friend and I found in the dead of winter, frozen, everything was frozen. And she was named Mavis, it turns out. Turned out. Well, we'll see what happens to Mavis, but anyway. That's a true story. Mavis wasn't like the chicken's monad painted in far yard enormity, plump and plumed, surrounded by piglets, lambs, and the light that stirs the French countryside, nor the pair of white chickens strolling amidst gold leaf flowers and Clem's garden path with chickens. Hers had been a modest life, small flock, a few horses, tufts of grass. When the man died and the woman disappeared, it seemed always lost. Pegging the frozen earth, she forgot rain, green shoots, soft air, the woman bringing grain. But since her rescue, kindness surrounds her and joy as she releases a perfect oval egg, blue with green spots. So that's what happened to me. That was beautiful. I didn't know what poems they were gonna be reading. I'm really, I didn't, I don't think I knew most of the poems, they were great. They really sounded great. So, this is, I'm gonna be reading from my theory. First folk imprinting waves comes without the yellow tags, but by Red Wolf Journal, it's published by Red Wolf Journal. Well, we can add yellow tags if you want. Yes. So, I'm gonna start my first poem. I have parents who are 86 and 90 and they are still very much in love and dance in the kitchen and they do everything together. They go to church every morning and have to be today, my father's in the hospital, but normally, they're pretty active and together. So it's called The Beauty of Decay. I noticed the small changes in my aging parents. They laugh at each other. One can't find his hearing aid, the other can't bend down to tie your shoe. I see the change in the number of lines on their faces. They realize they are fading. Walking on back roads is the bottom sunlight fades. Everything is burgundy, dark green and gold. Where once punk cherries and apples hung, there are now shriveled and frozen spheres. I still see the parents I knew and who they've become, forgetting what they said and legs that don't carry them as fast. Still, I see in their decay, beauty. Two old people holding hands, dancing in the kitchen to Sinatra and hanging onto the last fragments of life like wrinkled fruit on an old tree. And I'm still on my father. He is a daily communicant. He goes to church every day and Jody gladding occasionally will edit my poems and she goes, is this true? Once you hear this poem, you will guess the same thing. The light keeper. My father grows old in his practice of kneeling each morning to pray. In church there is an altar of candles with 100 flickering lights. Where money boxes ensure prayers for suffering souls and the blessed virgin bestows her grace on all who visit. When candles melt down to the bottom of the brown boat of glass, he slides them into his pocket to take home, sets them on the table for the night, then refreshes them with new white wax and wick. He returns them the next day so more intentions can be offered. Then while neighbors sleep, he walks the streets in search of burnt out lamps twisting and turning the bulbs, replacing them with new ones, tending to diminishing light in all the dark corners. So my parents had 10 children and I'm the oldest and I have, there's twins in there and they're twin girls and one of them has bipolar and she had about four bouts of bipolar, like series through her lifetime. But the last one, I always end up walking with her on the water while she's healing from it because there's always this coming back to normal. And this is a story about that poem and story. Murmuration, I walked along the lake with my sister released from the hospital. We saw layers of birds for a stretch of two miles wild in their deep nature of migration. Murmuration that looked like layers of undulating veils lifting and swirling in spirals with fluttering wings like thousands of black stars. I took her hand and we walked closer to the shore struck by their grace on open air. The vast sky blowing soft winds through their winter dance like my sister's mind, beautiful but startled by sudden flight. Thoughts haunting and spinning her course in every direction, flaking together and appearing as though they were true yet scattered like feathers who she was now swept away. And all the while I watch her witness her perfection as if she is a tiny bird. So in that house of 10 children as I was growing up, especially as a teen, I had to find ways to have time to myself and this poem kind of speaks to that. Horse, silence was wilderness in a house of many children. I ran like a wild horse with the sound of ocean waves crashing against the shore. I locked my bedroom door and sat in my closet writing, pen and paper, my bow and arrow. I was inspired by the only landscape I knew, the open page, found myself bareback, exuberant, galloping over the inner worlds of thought, shaping them into words on paper, gathering them into a corral of poems. Two years ago, I left Vermont to go live with my family that all of Michigan and I had left for many reasons but on the return I realized that I was bringing back a new self after 20 years of being here and that with family, parts of myself came alive then. I didn't know how I was gonna introduce that to them but I created a poem called Authentic Reintegration of the Wild and Sacred. There is no acronym for this phrase. Nothing short describes dying to self. I'll carry wild roots from an oak, drag them 700 miles in bare feet and watch my soul's blister, my hair dread in four directions. I will carry a sack of sticks and stones, chant sounds of coyote and owl. I will lay down a carpet of leaves, make my home in a grove of trees and sing out from my heart in sacred notes until they recognize me. So my daughter married a man from Vermont and his mother and I had become very good friends and at one time my daughter and her husband were going through kind of a hard time and we kind of pulled together and said, we're the outer circle, we need to hold everybody together. The kids need to know that we're together so no matter if they're fighting or not or whatever that we're holding that. So this is a story in honor of the two of us, two grandmothers. Two grandmothers gifted with the same grandchildren grow sage in their gardens, walk up hills side by side under roads, share stories as wise crows. Watched by owl in a tree, past broken barns and eagle messaging the sky. Each season before the sun rises, they venture on a pilgrimage to an earthen cave, cross an arched stone bridge over trickling water, enter a short elfin door and sit in the dark and pray.  I've been fortunate to be at my daughter's birth and at one of my daughter-in-law's birth and the other daughter-in-law I wasn't at but I noticed something and that was how when the baby cried, how it alerted her and I started thinking about how each baby's cry was so specialized to that mother's hearing like not everyone else hears it in the same way so I wrote a poem about that. A mother's harp.  The note that child strikes high or low sounds upon the harp of the heart, waking her from dreams, closing the phone conversation, pulling her away from the stove to care and nourish.  And then this poem is kind of self-explanatory and this is gonna be the last one. Words.  My vocabulary, a barren trail in the vast wilderness of speech. Who am I to call myself a poet when metaphors have a mind of their own?  Thank you. If you have any questions we'd love to hear about our poetry group and how we work if you want to come up with me. Can I have a question? If there are questions. Say any of any questions or anything about how you work? Do you have any slides? Yeah, okay. Well, I'll take it just. Okay, but anyone else can add. So we meet when I'm late and each person that we host in different homes and whatever person is hosting usually is the person that facilitates and we have different exercises, all different kinds. It's been very eclectic. It's kind of great because you wouldn't get that kind of challenge. I don't think if you're just doing it on your own because everyone looks for something a little special and we do that for about a half hour, you know, 10 minute writings and then we bring poems that we've been working on and each person gets a turn to read their poem and then we go around and critique. Some have a lot to say about what they think might need to change and others don't, you know, it's great. Everyone has different expertise to, yeah. So that's what we do. Yeah. Yes. I went tonight, each of you explained some of your poem or about that, but when you first read your poem to your group, do you do that as well or just kind of just read it and just see what they then have to say about it? Yeah, we don't usually, usually we just read it but sometimes somebody will say, I wanna hear anything you have to say or do I say, I'm just wondering if this makes sense or but usually it's sort of a cold read but then after the author reads it, then usually before we talked about it, someone will say, can I read it and then another person reads it out loud and so you sort of hear it twice because we don't read them ahead of time which has pros and cons and yeah. That's an important part, I missed you. We're reading, like when I have a chance to read the person's poem out loud that I really liked because it helps me hear it again. Yeah. And then after, we always end up talking about, well, I was thinking of this or you know, I don't really, you do end up sort of, do you wanna add anything to that? Usually we give some back history to where the poem came from and you know, the meaning of it or the emotional connection or something. Is there a prompt that you've used that you felt like was a really good prompt and everything really has something out of that prompt? Oh yeah, gosh, can I remember a particular one? The one you just did. The one, oh, that was great. What is that book called again? Land, land, help me with the words? Yeah, I brought a book that Susie gave me. Okay, so this book was a bestseller. Oh, Robert McFarland. Robert McFarland, Land Forms or something like that. Anyways, the really interesting thing about his work is that there's a glossary after each chapter and at the same time at mountains, it will show Gaelic, British, all these different nationalities of how they would say one, just the word for pond, the different ways they express pond or the way water just happens to bend around a rock or you know how we might have one word for flow or you know, there's so many other ways but the words are almost made up by how they sound to the person who wrote them. And so we ended up writing poems with words we made up and they were amazing. Marys was hysterical, but they were amazing poems that came out of making up words. Like, here's a phrase, exillic sky that was a icy blue sky was exillic. That's how it felt and that's the word that came out of that. That's an example. So that was kind of great, yeah, it was fun to do. Let's have a question. Did you all have a question? Hey, I'm curious in terms of the flow month to month, how often do the poems that you all bring in end up being ones that grew from the prompts and or how often do you then bring back or a biased version of a poem that the group had discussed? We've been talking about that we should bring back poems. We haven't done that much at all.  And I don't know how much. And some just send them into poetry houses and get published because I am like, we'll see it in class and in group and then, oh my gosh, you published that, that's awesome. Sometimes it just hops, it just goes. But it is a good exercise to bring back, yeah. I usually, from the prompt, I usually write an actual poem and I spend the whole month and then I work on it for a long time. So I mean, I do it a lot. I find that the prompt usually needs me to something. It might not be the thing I know, it might be a line. It might just make my mind think about the topic that I hadn't thought about.  And this was also based on a book of acrostic poems and they all could just, I think touching something. So you pick up the cow or pick up the fish and then write an acrostic poem. And I'm a fan of, I like a little bit of poems so I'm always throwing that on these guys. I did a quatering one, I was just writing a quatering. Just maybe you have an A-B, A-B, one, two, or something. And two. You do. It's the one that Lisa did. That was the very unusual one, was that? Oh, a guzzle. A guzzle. I might read a guzzle tomorrow. Yeah, Lisa did a guzzle about bread and it got published, it was really amazing. A guzzle. If you want to know. I just want to let you say that. It sounds different than it is, it's G-H-A-Z-A-L. It's a Persian or earlier or Arabic form. And it's a poem written using couplets that can kind of be any length. So, you know, it stands as two lines. And the first couplet, the last word of each line is the same word. And then each couplet after that, the second line ends with that word. And then, at the very end, a proper name is in the poem and usually the name of the author. So, yeah. It's fun. It's really been a nice journey of writing and expanding and evolving as writers. We all, you know, are really supportive of each other. So, it's great. So, thank you again, everyone for coming and enjoy the rest of poem city. Thank you.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel Critical Overlord here should talk about Jeepers Creepers 4 here again today and Shout out to Phoenix Finishing athletics. Hopefully you know who I'm talking about if I'm pronouncing your name by you left this comment down in the last video Which got my mind thinking that that that would actually be a good and very sick way to end the upcoming film So we're gonna talk about another way Jeepers Creepers 4 could end and just I guess this could be a way to give Jonathan Breck a small cameo if in fact They were to go this route and and a route I think many of us would be pleased with if it went down like this We know Jonathan Breck will not be the primary creeper that we see on screen this time around We know he's not gonna be the one behind the makeup It's someone named Jaru Benjamin again Hopefully you hopefully you knock out of the park and bring your own unique style to it Can't wait to see how your iteration of the creeper differs from his and what kind of homage and respect you pay to The stuff he brought to it, etc While doing your own unique thing But I know in the past video I talked about the fact of Chase giving himself up to save Lane and the creeper actually taking chase up on that offer unlike with Tricia where she was just ignored and he went off with dairy because I guess Tricia just ultimately did not have anything that the creeper liked Despite her being terrified. There was nothing he could smell from her that said, you know what? I'm gonna take you up on that trade. He said no, I don't want anything from you I get that you're scared and I'm flattered, but you you don't do it for me. It's it's dairy So jumping into chasing Lane What if instead of taking one or the other the creeper against shout-out to you Phoenix takes both of them takes both chase and lane and We know that in the poster There is a image of a baby carriage now I know a lot of people were honing in on what does that mean? What does that mean? And I think there's a tagline saying death gives it death gives it new life or death gives it life Which again you could interpret that many ways you can interpret that as being just another way of talking about every 23rd spring for 23 days against the eat because death does indeed give it new life It kills people take certain limbs from them and regenerates its own body as a result So with the baby carriage, maybe there's something more to it We know that Chase is going to be proposing or it appears that they had filmed something regarding Lane getting abducted that included Chase proposing to her at the horror Hound Festival before the creeper swoops down and interrupts the Proposal which is what I guess prompts them all to end up at that new house of pain where Lane isn't trying to save her Then they all get separated and they have their own little encounters with the creeper one by one Because now he has a whole buffet besides just Lane so like what happens is Maybe Lane is also pregnant. Maybe Lane is also pregnant Maybe we actually find that out early on in the film too. Maybe we find out that Lane is pregnant but I Know I've talked about the fact that maybe Chase is out here for a specific reason like he actually wanted to go out to the Taggart barn and everything like that but talking about Lane really quick, maybe she's actually pregnant and maybe we learned that very early on in the film and Maybe this is why Chase while he had plans to always marry this woman Of course getting her pregnant probably sped things up in his mind And he's doing something to kind of just show that he's not going anywhere He loves her and he wants to stick by her side. He wants to of course raise the baby so What if at the end of all this hopefully fun that we have with this film? We get to see Lane and chase in the creeper layer I'm assuming it's going to be something completely different from the house of pain that we see right now because there's going to be too many people Swarming it trying to save everybody. He takes them to a new house of pain And he kills both of them Um, and then again shout out to you phoenix you say He could of course again do something crazy with their bodies like how he did with dairy and we saw that We could see something very gruesome like that At the end of jesus creepers four before we jump to seeing him move on to Something he has pulled out of lane, which could be A baby fetus of some sort depending on how how depending on how long I guess or how how near she is with giving birth Of course, that will also play a factor But maybe there's something inside her that's like a baby fetus The creeper could pull it out the creeper could digest said baby fetus And you know again that that's probably just something that I know for a fact Would kind of just unnerve anyone watching because I know I would hope a lot of you watching me are fans of children You love children don't want anything like that to of course happen to a child in real life And just the thought of seeing that that definitely is going to send send chills down anyone's spine Anyone who is I would say of a person that has a good heart someone who adores children And understands that they are the future you should be protecting them You should not let something like that happen to them And this of course isn't even a child that's fully developed at all and then to have the creeper just consume it You know that's going to be something that's even more Kind of just unnerving to watch And then here's the part that I think would have fans going crazy When He eats this fetus the creeper could then come up after eating the fetus We see some type of transformation or get an indication of some type of final transformation occurring Where he rises up or it rises up turns around and we see jonathan breck really quickly Before the film cuts to black. He gives a quick smile to the camera Back in his full form the creeper we all know and love Film ends showing the creeper back to his full health And it's not to say that the fetus is what did it but like that the anything could have done it But it's the fact that you know, he's been eating so much and he's been growing over the course of the film The fetus was the final nail in the coffin now We see the jonathan breck iteration of the creeper and then the film ends with him smiling I think a lot of fans would enjoy an ending like that I think a lot of fans would enjoy seeing jonathan breck back in that small capacity And if they do make gibberish creepers five and six I think a lot of you would also latch on to the fact that this means that they intend to bring him back To play the creeper in future entries and they only use jaru for the reawakening creeper to show him slowly Progressing to the form that we all know and love about him when jonathan breck was playing him So as far as like What would happen With Some of the things you guys want to have cut from the film, you know, i'm all for having the batmobile cut I'm all for those special powers being cut if you're not going to portray them In a fashion that's not cartoony I'm all for that stuff being cut. I know a lot of you said the whole movie should be forgotten I mean, you can't you you can't do that in the sense of you can you don't have to reference it Just don't reference it. I mean scream does that so well They don't really reference too many of the sequels outside of Constantly referencing the original billion stew billion stew. You don't have to specifically reference anything from that horrendous third film that we got You can leave it canon But yes, I would ignore certain powers that we know exist You don't have to say the powers aren't there anymore But just ignore them because they came off very bad in gibberish 3 Uh, but let me know what you guys think about this down in the comment section below How would you like that ending to occur if you haven't already? Of course make sure you subscribe turn on postification Remember this video in the description. 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