Yn ymgyrch yn ymdw i chi wedi'i ffliwyr i fynd i hyrwyr Carnustu Cymru ac rwy'n dod o'r cyffredig yma'r Carnustu Cyngor, yn cymrych wedi bod yn ymgyrch clywed, ac yn ddiddorol'r cyllid yma'r cyffredig. Gwydwch i'r gweithio'r cyngor, ac mae'r pannuor yw'r gwaith i'r cyfrifio. Yng Nghymru gofyn i'r ystod yng nghymru yma, yng nghymru 2 ac yn yng Nghymru 3, ac mae e'n rhaid i'r dweud o'r gwneud, ond hefyd mae'n gweithio'r cyntaf yng nghymru i'r ddaethau, ac yn ddechrau'r gwellach i'r hyn yn ei wneud. Rwy'r pethau yn ddiweddol am ddechrau, ac mae'n ddechrau'r rhai ddechrau, mae'n ddiddordeb ddiddordeb yn ddiddordeb, ac i fyny'r ystyried ychynig yn gyfnod ar ôl neu hwn arno, chy Gloir gyrddio'r ffordd o'r lefnod. Ac nid oherwydd rwynt o daith fy mod neu'r ffordd o'ch gwahag o ysbydd sydd yn gwybodaeth, rydyn ni'r llwyster hynny, a fyddwch bod leveru i'r llwyster maenewaidd o'i gynhygoedd? Gofyn i'r llwstio hynny o Garnu wastai. Rwy'n arddangos, byddwn i'n gallu beth yna o mynd ymi, a'r gynhygoedd pan rydym yn gofo'r goll yn hefyd, Rwy'n gobeithio yw'r llweith yma. Mae'n gweithio'r 3 o'r clwrs yn ymdweud, ond, mae'n gwneud, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r llweith hon, i'n gobeithio'r gweithio. Yn ystod o'r llweith o Pamur, mae'r ystyried yn cyfnod. Mae'n rhan o'r llweith yn cael ei ddweud. Yn ystod o'r pan Mwur, mae'r llweith o'r llweith o'r llweith o'r cyfnod yn ystod o'r amgylcheddau James Braid yn 1922, Ond yw'n ddod o'r cyfnod Ben Hogan yn gyflawni'n 53, yn y newydd yw'r cyfnod. Rhaid, rydyn ni'n ddod o'r awl yma, a dyna'n ddod David Brody, y gyrsgwrnod General y Pan Mŵr.  Rydyn ni'n ddod o'r awl i'r cyfnod i'w dderbyn i rhoi yn y L Twelve Championship at Cynraiste i 1953. Rydyn ni'n ddod o'r awl i'r cyfnod a rydyn ni'n ddod o'r awl, ond rydyn ni'n ddod o'r awl i'r cyfnod. Dyma'r cyfnod yn gyflawni'n ystod y tro. Rydyn ni'n ddod o'r awl o'r awl i'r cyfnod. Rydyn ni'n ddod o'r awl i'r cyfnod. Rydyn ni'n ddod o'r awl i'w ddod o sylietraeth? Rydyn ni'n yn ddechrau na ff fascinating companies. Which is lovely. There's some lovely anecdotal stories about his time here as well. The time he said the one thing that the sixth hole is missing is a green-side bunker. So the committee put installed the green-side bunker. Still known now as Hogan's Bunker The name was changed to Hogan after his time here. So it's a little bit of a test. Well it'll be a test today because right into the wind Mae'r rhai i'r tyfnwys wedi cael ei bwysig. Mae'r rhai i'r rhai i'r tyfnwys wedi cael ei ffantafol oherwydd ym Llyfrgell Hogan's. Mae'r rhai i'r ffantafol oherwydd. Yw'r par i'r ffantafol oherwydd oherwydd yn y gallu y bwysig. David wedyn yn ystod i'w cymryd o'r bwysig sy'n cymryd y Llyfrgell Hogan's hul gael gael gael gelfers ac yn wneud y special memento. A'r gweithio y llwylo'r 3-3 clwb cwrtwyr, mae'r llwyddech yn gwybolaeth. it would require my Sunday best and for once I'd do the obliged. Well that's without doubt the best shot I have, well probably in a long time. But certainly since I've turned up at Pan Mio today. Right, I'll actually take me time over this one. It means a lot to if I could hold this. I mean that it really does, there's a challenge going on in my head. And I desperately want to hold this. I say I'm disappointed you're missing the pub but I took a four all day long in what is, that's an incredible golf hole and to be named after Ben Hogan, they're really really nice but like I said great golf hole and that's a damn good part into the day's breeze. Right a gorgeous morning I'm at Arbroath golf club it's just a little bit up the road from where I'm staying in Carnousty and I've asked to switch the camera on, I'm just playing the first, we're in for what will be a parport but the green complex on the first hole if this is anything to go by it looks absolutely stunning. First caught in the feed in in terms of these little tiny swales and cambers and then into a green which looks to be absolutely fantastic. There's no excuses when you miss these or as I keep it rolling see if we can make a par on the first. Not quite but a great start and another course which have no idea what to expect but we'll soon find out. Early holes see the introduction of double pins or vetted bunkers rolling fairways and macular aprons and railway lines. Arbroath is ticking a lot of boxes right now. Steve, I believe, you're volunteering, you help out in terms of the running of the club and cutting it. One of the volunteers, yeah. So how many hours of your time do you have to give up to look after a course like this? A lot. No, not a lot. Today I'll be about eight or nine hours and then maybe two or three or another day if required. Wow. The reason I just want to stop you just say thanks on behalf of the visitors. All visitors that come to Arbroath Golf Club because you're doing a great job and keep up the good work. I know Bill as well does a bit. Bill does as well, yeah. I hope that they enjoy it. I think it's a very good course, a very fair course for visitors and I just hope that people see this and come and try it. Great little par three again back into what looks like to be a bit of a basin green. I can only see half the flag back into the breeze as well. That's not a very good shot, but will it work? No, it's straight into something. I can't come to Arbroath and not try Arbroath the Smokies, which I believe is Smocaddox. So it's over to the harbour and it will taste a bit of fish instead of whisky this week. How are you doing? You okay there? Arbroath Smokies. I want to try them how do I order them and what do these sort of come in? How do we? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Let's try that. Perfect. The moment of truth. I don't know if I've got no bones left in that. Do you know what? When all honesty, I was dreading tasting it from the looks of it, but it's absolutely gorgeous and what it isn't. It's not overly smoky which is what I was expecting it to be and why I might not like it, but it's not like that at all. Now this isn't a food channel and obviously you don't want my opinion on a description of how this fish is, but trust me it is very nice indeed. It's really moist fish. You're laughing behind the camera because you know I was dreading in a way tasting. It's absolutely gorgeous and I like to taste them now. Not smoky one bit. Arbroath has got damn good golf course and Arbroath Smokies are a nice bit of fish as well. So in episode two I think we've just got a bone. So my travels through Carnoosti country continue and this time they take me to Forfa and I lay out the community attributes to old Tom Morris and James Braid. It's challenge time. It's man versus golf old challenge. It's the 12th hole, 420 yards and yet it's stroke one. So I picked our right one to throw down the corner with, but we are down breeze a bit. I think it's very much about this tee shot if I can get one chasing down the middle and driving the ball well so far. Oh that's a good ball. Is that a bunker waiting for it? Maybe that's that's got to be a long way away surely. I can't quite get that one coming down but we're down the left hand side and it's a decent enough start and we'll see what awaits. Right it's just got yardage, one four one in. I'm going to take a wedge it's quite a bit down breeze and decent enough drive and like I said brother a couple of yards are left and you're into the you're into the heather. So you can see why stroke one it's fairly tight. Right that's bang online it's just about that distance now. Come on get up. I need to see that ball. No yes yeah not bad it's just obviously I don't know you might have seen it might have just fed off slightly off down the right hand side. It's a birdie chance but it's a it's a long birdie chance but I can't get the short one so you never know I might hold this one. Right well do you know what I think that's probably done better than I thought it did from back there. I knew it was going to bound on a bit but it's a chance it's a chance but can we what can I rather get a ball rolling at the hole and give it half a chance. Come on stroke one first birdie. No no yet again a week in terms of the pace and it was never going to get there once it was falling away up that hill so it's it's a par and they took that on the tee any day a week but uh yet that birdie is still alluding me. I'll keep picking on a par of threes but uh well very nice. Right I know the chance of the elusive birdie and the irony would be if I always have literally duffed a nine iron that's fed itself right down to here worst iron shot of the day and uh oh my word it is as well I oh it stayed out oh I don't like these COVID flags wow that was banging the middle in a way I'm glad it didn't go in after that nine nine but I can't believe it didn't yeah another par I can't believe that that elusive birdie I don't even know what I'll run is it 16 oh my word


If we're going to spend between 40% and 50% of GDP on public services, then let's have a conversation that talks about how public services, public spending, particularly in parts of the country outside of the southeast, can be an engine of growth, a real stimulus for innovation, and I don't think we're quite having that conversation yet. What we're seeing is a very differentiated approach to public services across different sectors at the moment. We're seeing local government with perhaps less money to spend, certainly less money to spend. And hard hit in some places, but also more freedom to maneuver, more freedom to create local partnerships. And I think a real question from now onwards is how you create this kind of shared space between public service providers and other stakeholders within the local economy actually to develop new collaborative models together that work across the public, the private and civil society sectors. I think as you get into the inevitable challenge of having more demand than resources to spend on it, then you have to get into the question of how you unlock resource, how you build capacity, how you build resilience in communities.


This is the OGM weekly call on Thursday, October 20th, 2022. In Portland, my little weather app shows that as of like tomorrow, we fall off a cliff into winter and it goes from sunny, sunny, sunny tail end of summer, summer, summer, summer to oops, it's going to be raining now.  Yeah, and for the last week, the air outside has been really misty because there's some wildfires in Washington state pretty nearby. They're not blowing over us, but it's definitely messy air. So hopefully fires will put that out. Then we're off and running, replenishing the aquifers. Send itself. Well, if only they were away and apparently like, there've been some big desperate plans to reroute major amounts of water from the Pacific Northwest all the way down to the Bay Area or LA that have not come to fruition, but that's just a long way to move heavy stuff. It is, it is, we should just tow icebergs down right. Yeah, exactly. Well, we used to sort of do that for ice right. What's prevented, like a major desalination, like Israel desalination. What's prevented high speed rail from happening between obvious destinations on the West Coast, for example, I don't know. Forces of ownership and control of existing mechanisms of supply, perhaps. Little things like that. Yeah. We sell at the volumes needed, you know, the average person needs 10 liters of water a day. That's just one person and the energy demands are unpalatable. It's a lot. Now, if solar winds up being next to free because we're getting like the cheapest solar installations now are like two cents per kilowatt hour, which is crazy. And apparently 10 cents per kilowatt hour beats coal. So your average coal fired plant is 10 cents per kilowatt hour. And under that you're good. And then you don't need to feed a solar collector, any energy, no fuel, that's kind of cool.  There is a problem of Brian though, there's a lot of, you know, waste matter from this. So I would say why don't we figure out how to make bricks out of the brine. Like we're not putting it back in the ocean and changing the salinity or whatever like, like, let's, let's make something out of the brine. They should fund a little competition like like Napoleon funded the competition that led to margarine. We could make pickles. And turkeys. We could call them, we could call them drought pickles. And have like pickle factories. I like that a lot Stacy. You're going to contribute to the drought pickle idea. No, but I did once I did once post somebody's idea on my Facebook page, similar to this, hoping that one of my very intelligent friends would start a conversation, and they just shut him right down. And I, you know, I need to point that out. I mean, one of the things is that it really, even just this really short discussion, it just shows how the solutions always cause another problem. You know, Israel hasn't, it's completely dependent on electricity. You know, the water supplies, it's like we treated our water, you know, water problem for an electric problem and it's like, okay, well. So, you know, and there's a go and then the brine and the waste and it's just the sort of, it starts to give you this idea of how the techno utopianism, it's not. So it's not what you solve the next problem like, okay. It's far from straightforward.  And they've been having a little back and forth that arises every now and then about nuclear power.  And there's a couple other people who are like no no no nuclear is okay if this if this if this if this if this.  Very, very interesting. Yeah, I mean that particular problem I've heard a lot of arguments on both sides. And that's actually, I don't know if any of you guys saw this thing that it's actually a sense making thing was a sense making thing with general Schmacktenberger. Where he presented these three things on the stowa and the first one. I'll find it in a second. The first one was this, this sense making thing where it looked at all the arguments for and against the nuclear power was one of the was the example that she gave on it. And, you know, there's there's economic arguments and then there's scientific arguments and their ecological arguments and it turns out that she was able to, I think there's like 27 different perspectives people could have on this thing and it was broken down. It was so interesting to look at it. One of the arguments that, you know that, that I have been thinking about like it that struck struck me like it was like, well this assumes that they'll always be people to maintain the waste facilities and I'm like, Oh, wow, I never like that's a very interesting assumption right like, we never think about right and then all of a sudden you see what's going on in Ukraine and it's like oh wait a second, there could be locations in the world where all of a sudden it becomes unfeasible to maintain the waste site, who thought of that nobody thought of that. So I'll find that I'm going to find that thing. I just, I just posted the only link to a Schmacktenberger stowa video that I have to the chat tell me if it might have landed close so The issue of people going to work at the waste sites, the general assumption of almost everybody is that people will show up for work. As things get dicey and people are thinking about protecting their families, going to work seems like a low priority. Yeah, and for the, for the long term protection that Grace is talking about, you know, it, these sites need long term protection longer than there have been humans on the planet. Yeah, I'm thinking here of the long now foundation and their clock of the long now, though, which I find puzzling but the whole idea of which is to, to focus our thoughts on hey, what if we needed a project that had to stay around for 10,000 plus years. And, you know, humans in their current social aggregations haven't been around quite that long, we are nowhere near the longevity of dinosaurs. A few months ago, Joanna may seen a bunch of other people did something called the nuclear guardian project, which was trying to create almost a culture of taboo like you know what what would be the signs and symbols and procedures and cultural, you know, Bene Gesserit style injections you would need to do to ensure that these things could be safe for hundreds of thousands of years. Just consider the change in English from Chaucerian English to today. If I started speaking Chaucerian how many of you would speak would understand me, and we've got to take enormously technical stuff and put it in a language that can be understood for thousands and thousands of years as culture and language change I mean it's a, it's a dimension not a lot of people think about when we start talking about how to handle nuclear waste. We could burn it on a floppy disk too. We'll burn it onto a floppy disk so they can. I have some cassettes. Can we do a mixtape? Can we do a mixtape? I like mixtapes. So we might find some solutions to these problems if only we lived in a post capitalist society. Nice segue Jerry, awesome. Was that good that I picked that up? Yeah, that was good. I'm going to get over. And today is a topic call and I'm excited about our topic. And I'm going to lean on Ken a bit because Ken recommended some choreography for our conversations in the sense of breaking up into subgroups to work around questions. Just for grins, let me do a quick screen share for a sec. And then I took sort of, here's your post on the Plex. Here are all the issues that I've seen of Pete's Plex Dispatch. Here is the October 5 version. Here is my copy of your essay down here. You can read the whole thing. And then I actually took and parsed out the questions you asked in there. And these are the questions that are in the tail end of your posts there, which are lovely questions to consider. And I don't know if you want us to break up and discuss some of these questions that might be a way to do this, but I'm going to leave that to you. But I'm going to share the link out to this call in the chat right now so that anybody who feels like it can sort of wander around there. Now, what I didn't do yet is link each of your questions up to the contexts that it belongs to which I know. It were we to actually go deeper into that and start focusing on them or were my breakout focusing on for those questions I would then do that, you know, onward from there. And as, as, as always sort of my assumption, but we don't practically do this very much. If anybody else is note taking or mapping or doing anything around any of our calls, send those links to me and I will include them when I post back to the, to the OGM town square channel. I will include them in my brain as as part of the map and so on and so forth. Let's let's do more of using the tool, the sense making tools that we each like to make sense together grace. My question is, can you say what you mean by co post capitalist, because that's like, it's like I don't even know what I don't know what capitalism is like what are you referring to. That's a very good question. Ken, do you want to start there. Sure. Hello everybody. Good morning, good afternoon where you might be. I don't think no grace it's probably it's getting close to evening for you so good evening to you. So, there's a line that says it's harder to imagine the end of capitalism than it is to imagine the end of the world. And I read that just rang for me really true like there's so much stuff right now about the end of the world and all these endings and extinction events and doom and gloom and it's like, wow. And I'm like, you know, capitalism seems to be driving in many ways, many of the big challenges that we're seeing. And so I'm thinking well if we could get past capitalism and get past a post apocalyptic vision of the world and start to imagine a flourishing world where you know everyone's needs are met where in the dawn of everything they talked about the woodland Indians of the Northeast. When the Europeans arrived everybody had the means to an autonomous life, but everybody else had private property so the women owned the land and farm debt but they shared the bounty and the men owned all their own implements for hunting but they shared the bounty of the hunt and so everybody had their needs met and then there was a way of building up so you could have an autonomous life that didn't rely on destroying the world around you. So to me that's a post capitalist world how do we create an autonomous life everybody, we don't have to destroy the planet's life support in order to make that happen. That's my biggest broadest feature of that. Doug, can that sounds like that was a pre capitalist world. It was exactly in the chat. And I think we can. There may be some wisdom in going back and recovering elements from the pre capitalist world coupled with what we now have to make a post capitalist world. Love that and I think this this notion of turning over the soil on what is capitalism is a really nice way to walk into this whole topic Doug. I think the problem is not capital. My view is that capital is the surplus produced by whatever economic system you have. The problem we have is the ownership, who owns the surplus. And that leads them to be the people who get to make decisions about society. Capital begins in Greece and Rome with a new head of capital, capital cap for head. Cattle was the sign of wealth. And the issue that's very interesting is Plato and Aristotle talk about okay well managed society produces a surplus. What should we do with a surplus. And their view was okay surplus would be silly to buy new things. It should be used for creating free time for leisure and politics. When that model moved into early Christianity became that the eco in economics was the was God's estate and our job was to manage the surplus produced there for prayer and contemplation. So there is a history of what should be done with surplus. But to get back to my first point the problem I don't think is capital because capital is just the surplus produced by a society, and any society is going to do that the problem is when capital moves into an ownership regime. That's that means that some people own capital and some people do not. So, the word ownership is really important here and I think a lot of us would would vehemently agree that there's something awry with ownership and ownership and control of ownership and so forth. So let's dive there a little bit, Mike then guilt. I love the fact we're talking about words, although I'm a physicist. I think it's unfortunate that we call the system capitalism, because it does put the focus on the money. The fact is, you really need to talk about a political economy. You need to talk about the power. Sometimes you can use power to get money and sometimes you use money to get power. Well, we've got this world of overabundance of data information ideas, and the computing power and network power to do something powerful with them. And so if we're going to have a post capitalist society. This is a great time to start it. And we're seeing these utopian visions of a digital economy where people can, you know, kind of design their own job and work from where they want. These were things we talked about in the 90s but we didn't have the capabilities and we didn't have the socialization people hadn't gotten used to the idea that you weren't going to get a job and work there for five years, or 40 years. But now, you know, the gig economy could become the post capitalist economy because we now have these ways to take ideas and take data and create new brand new services for next to nothing. There's a rear guard action going on. There's a lot of people with a lot of power and a lot of employees who are fighting like hell against anybody who challenges their obsolete business models. But I haven't seen the good vision for what 2040 could look like if we fully utilized the platforms and the data that we have. I know it's out there. And I think we'll, we'll just do it piece by piece and it'll probably be somebody in Kenya who comes up with one piece of it they, they've already discovered mobile money. And then it'll be somebody else in India who does something magic with farming, and maybe something else will happen with energy and and water, and we'll start getting the key inputs into this new economy, provided in new ways that don't involve massive utilities and the like. I mean, I just wish that the people who wrote the fantasies about this decentralized world actually knew some basic economics and understood politics. If we can find the right core group of people who could put together all those pieces I think there is a vision that actually would resonate with 6070 even 80% of people in Europe and even a majority of people in the US. I apologize I do have to leave in 10 minutes but I am desperate for that vision so if anybody sees something that the only thing that I think we talked last time about building. And I went and picked up that book and I'm working my way through that and the, the idea of libertism, the libertism, and again it's, it's a world where we're all empowered to do some of the things that I was just talking about. So, Ken and grace are trying gently to steer us back into a look forward instead of a look backward. Gil you have your hand up if you would like to head in that direction you're welcome to it otherwise I'd love to skip directly to Ken and have him start sort of choreographing us into this. Yeah, let me do it real quick that I'm going to have to go out and take the call while walking to a medical appointment. I think the visions have been out there. They're not in, you know they're not widespread because it's not convenient for the folks on the media to have them be widespread but you know, if you haven't seen the work of Murray Bookchin, I would point you there. Oh, Murray. Oh, Murray. Oh, Murray. Yeah, Murray, who writes really evocative. And as kind of the source documents for the Rohingya community in of the Kurds, who have built or attempted to build the kind of vision on the ground Mike that you're talking about not, not treated very well by Saudi Hussein and the Americans and various others but there are examples and stories and there's lots of visioning out there I think one of the challenges we talk about capitalism is that it's not just a matter of geek economy and decentralized technology but a world that puts capital at the center of the game. In fact puts financial capital at the center of the game trance bill talks about the fact and many people talk about the financialization of everything. The capital becomes the pivot point and the measure of everything. So when we played capitalism with business and with markets, there were markets long before there was capitalism. Human economic activity long before you know and Ken talked about that a moment ago. So I think, and I don't know if this is a part of the look back we're going to look for Jerry but the, as I think about it. Lots of efforts to reform capitalism don't get at the structural defects that are inherent in that economic system. That's the problem is the and part of the reason why we end up talking about what is capitalism a whole bunch is. Yeah, and we talked about, you know, ethical, environmental capitalism stakeholder capitalism, just capitalism, non just capitalism so forth and my short list has six structural defects built into the game that we have to address if we're going to get to post capitalist, you know, and kind of just rattle them off real quick. Go quickly. Okay, and I can later post up about this accumulation without limit. Oh yes, you've said that before, extraction without reciprocity. Alienation without care. Abstraction without ground generation without regeneration maybe that was redundant and privatization without solidarity, which I put in my brain sometime ago. There you go in 2020 and 2020 June 2021 call, you mentioned those and I add the name. Okay, which reminds me I need to actually finish the piece of writing on this about that. Okay, so I'm going to go, I'm going to go off video I'll be listening and thank you all. Awesome. Can you take your bots hand down. I will. Yeah. Thank you. And before I turn the con to Ken Grace did you want to add something that will help us steer here. No, this is going great. This is going swimmingly. Excellent. So framing. I'm inviting us to step into an imaginal space not a problem solving space. I believe if you saw my article in the plex yesterday or today whenever it came today I guess the problem with problems is we get into trouble and trying to solve problems and I think that is a downstream not an upstream move we want to start with. What, what a world that's post capitalist look like what if everyone's what if the children of all species for all time at everything they need to live a good life. That's not a problem to be solved that's that's a concern to be lived into that is a that is a be hag to be, you know, explored. And so I don't want anyone to try and come up with the vision today and maybe they try to come up with the problems that you're going to solve this. I just would like us to step into let's imagine. And I just found this article yesterday on speculative futures and and somebody. There's an artist in front of a vacant lot in the city who put all these labels that said I wish this was and people coming along and they're they're writing. I wish this was a garden. I wish this was, you know, a daycare center and it's like, get into the I wish I'll I wish we were in this imaginal space. We don't have to solve any problems here because first by generating a whole bunch of ideas. We might actually find some that we can work on. But today is not about working on ideas today is about generating ideas does that make sense everybody any questions on that. Okay, to me. You can you can argue with the artist.  I was in line to talk about this vision that we're talking about. So I don't know if I'm next or not. No, what we're going to do is they're actually going to because it's so awkward to try and coordinate this with 16 people. I'm going to ask Jerry to create four breakout rooms. And we'll go into small rooms for about 20 minutes each and then we'll shift to a different room with new people. We'll go back into planaries will do two rounds of that and just, you know, there's a list of questions that I started in the post that Jerry has linked in his email. So you can look at those you can add your own questions I'd like to talk about this question or here's my idea or here's my wish my desire. So the idea is to do two rounds of about 20 minutes each and come back to planary and see what we're learning. I'm ready to click on the breakouts whenever I knew you would be you're just an amazing guy Jerry. Thank you so much. So any questions before we go into breakouts and welcome to mark. What is our assignment in the breakouts. Your assignment in the breakouts is to look at the questions that I have posed or pose your own and talk about my vision of a post capitalist world is one where the children of all species for all time have everything they need to live a great life. That could be a start. So we've got that in the chat so that we've got that as a prompt. Sure. Thank you. Just because what I guess the question I want to ask that I'm sure question one asks is what is your vision of a post capitalist world, and no one's going to make you wrong for whatever you say that's going to be your vision and we're going to look for. I can really relate to that thank you. Yes. Might be more imaginable. If it's what's your vision of a world. Any way you want to advise me down to something that you can parse any way you want whatever works for you. I'm just suggesting starting points. It's not adhere to this question. Ask whatever you want. I'm saying, step into it. We don't exercise our imaginations enough. We're always talking about what we know. We don't know. We don't know how to create a post episode. We have to imagine it first before we can figure it out. So I'm asking you to exercise your imagination here. Sounds great. So I want to make a comment before we go in. And that is the difficulty in this group of following any logic. So I'm proposing that capital is the wrong target. You cannot have a society without capital. What you can have as a society with a different form of ownership. And ownership is the real problem. Let's get into our break up programs and figure it out. Let's go. Let's just go. Thanks, Doug. Let's go into breakouts. Here we go. Grace looks like he has some time. I was just going to comment that a lot of this both what you said and what. Pete says just it both it's sort of pointed at integrated life. Like that we're not separate from one another. We're not separate from the planet. We're not separate from me. I'm thinking of the planet as like our mother or as our child. It's like, well, those are kind of just part of you, right? They're just an extension of you. And here I am with my coffee, which is like very soon it's not going to be my coffee. It'll be me. I think one way of expressing that for me is what I just typed in the chat, which is I wish we recognized our interdependence with each other with animals with the planet. And, and I'll add something to that that might color it too much, but sort of the sacred nature of those relationships. And I use the word sacred very hesitantly there. But that, but that those bonds and relations and connections and dependencies are just what everything's made out there. They're like royally important and we need to tend to them with care. And part of the reason I'm really happy that the word consumer bothered me 30 years ago and I started following it is that I think the word consumer and the consumerization of our lives is a piece of what drove us apart from each other and what made us give up responsibility for the commons and for society and all those kinds of things and we are currently at a nadir, not Ralph that set of emotions and possibly tipping even further down if this thing spirals out of control. Ken, you've got the common. Quick show of hands how many people found that an easy conversation. Yeah. People found it kind of hard to step out of the well that won't work because of this. That was definitely part of our conversation. It's challenging to step outside our mark. Please go ahead. Oh, I'm just raising my hand. Okay. But you want to just speak to us. Welcome. Is this part of an exercise regime Mark. Yeah. Oops, lower hand. Okay, good. Let's do another round. Can you hit recreate on the breakout room so we end up with different people and we'll do another 20 minutes and we'll come back here. Thanks, Wendy. Good to see you. And we'll, and maybe since there's fewer people maybe do fewer rooms, I don't know, three rooms. Yeah, three rooms before it'll be fine. Because kills actually here twice because it was no taking thing. All right. Yeah, exactly. We'll be sending us back into rooms and 20 minutes and we'll come back and check in with each other. And we're sort of back. Can still in the breakout.  Room one is still. I hit the lead breakout by mistake when we still. Can't get back, but you couldn't find your way back in. Not to the breakout. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you. I didn't see you drifting in the breakout thing. It didn't tell me that there was somebody on assigned. No, no, no, no, what I'm just the last few minutes just the last few seconds you're talking about what I'm saying is that when the option to leave the breakout came up. And we were still talking and I hit the button. mistake and I couldn't get back to the break out. Sorry, I left the break up. Apology noted. And I was actually answering a question of marks in the middle of that so the answer is Hanlon's razor is never assume malice when ignorance will do for an excuse or something close to that. Okay, how was that for people I would love to hear. Any other conversations might who'd like to like to share. Doug, you're muted. The main thought I had, which goes back to your question is that people still when they talk about wishes it's very abstract it's very hard to envision. What kind of world that actually looks like what's the texture that could be caught for example on a video camera of what this is like. And the floating them keeps the conceptual world and the natural world separate. And Doug, this is a really, really common problem with anybody trying to describe anything. And one of the things I often push people to do is offer texture and say describe some very specific act or thing that we're familiar with that would be different. You're proposing or the scenario you're proposing and it's kind of hard for people. And I think it's a very useful exercise maybe at some point we do that as an exercise to just like figure out what texture means and how to describe texture because many of us are very intellectual and in our heads all the time. And everything that comes out of our mouths is this kind of like floating in the ether and makes a lot of sense to us, but doesn't get grounded in other people's perceptions because it's missing texture. So my trying to make it more visual was to suggest that the wishes that we wouldn't move where we live, and where we garden closer together. Which you can picture because it's an urban design idea or a suburban or rural. Exactly. Well, yeah, urban planning land use management, whatever, whatever the right categories.  So Mark first and Gil. I asked this question last night. At the Internet Archive because my job is one I actually don't like very much. It's kind of janitor of the, of the website and maintenance worker, rather than doing a lot of the creative stuff. The new kids knew all know all the new JavaScript stuff and I have often stuck doing PHP maintenance work.  And I looked at the clock and said well, you know, I'm going to take a lot of time to envision an answer. We don't have in two hours to do this where we're probably in a 15 minute conversation at the most and there are five other people here and, you know, I just can't answer that. We can't do that kind of vision off the cuff with any kind of real juice to that vision. Could you have asked for some time to think about it and then come back in a different setting and then express it. I'm going to have to do that. Yes. Sometimes you've got to like turn it over. If it's a really great question, you need some time.  It's common envisioning and then visioning. I think you have to give it a lot more time than five minutes. I have a 30 second story that I've told long ago in OGM but long ago I attended a meeting about Quaker process of meeting for business. How do Quakers make decisions.  And at one point he asked us a question and we all kind of leaned forward and like, oh, like Arnold Borschach, and he was like, let's go into silence for three minutes with this. And my little inner voice was like, how the hell did I get to be 30 years old and nobody has ever said let's go into silence for a little while and consider our answers rather than race to answer this thing. And I like a little light bulb went off in my head about my educational career to that point. Gil then grace, unless can you want to steer instead. Yeah, I'll talk later. Go Gil. I like these last few comments. I think the setting. A lot of people have said it's difficult to vision and I think the setting matters a lot. And how I vision around the zoom screen versus around a table with your around around the living room with you all or in a hot tub with you all. You know, meditation retreat with you all, or coming together after two days of solitude, you know, in the wilderness are all really different conversations and access different aspects of my imagination. And we are. We're trying. Ken's inviting us into a very vast exercise. We're using a very constrained form of conversation to get us there. I'm not criticizing it. I'm just observing. That's it. Thanks. Grace. Yeah, so I found it. Yeah, very strained conversation, mostly because I have this kind of like I've been in this conversation for last year or two or three or what I like it's like oh I'm going to do that again. I'm kind of a bit strained. And I do agree with Gill about the, about the format but one thing that I thought was great that came out of it was kind of the reframing of what does a post capitalist world mean, which came out both in the first conversation the other and so like, you know, on the one hand we could think of post capitalist as, oh you know we caused all this destruction, but on the other hand it's like we created all this cool stuff. And so reframing it to be, hey, capitalism created all these technologies and all these tools and all this stuff and there were some collateral damage, which we, you know, we're going to have to repair. But basically a post capitalist world is the world in which we've got all the stuff. Now what do we do with it. And I think that framing is very useful for me personally, as like, we built stuff. What do we do with it. And Grace, I really love that reframing and that helped me a lot when you said it. I'm puzzled because you've been chewing on this for a very long time and I would think that when this kind of conversation comes up you'd be like, I have a little utility toolkit full of things to like people's heads up with scenarios or possibilities or things that this new world could be like.  Maybe that's a reframing. Yeah, but I think that's right, but it's like, okay, you've been in the trenches doing this for a long time. Let's start back at zero. I actually was in a conversation with that like a group last night that was exactly that. They had hired somebody to write up like their vision for the future and this person ran across my white paper and they're like, this is it. I found it. He's like, I found it. And so he told them about it and they're exactly almost exactly where I was about six years ago in their thinking. And so he had me come in and present to them. And it was like talking like I'm talking a different language and it was so frustrating. And so I'm kind of referring to that. I really do want to hear other people's ideas and I don't want to come into a brainstorming session saying I've thought about it for 10 years. Let me tell you how it like that's the worst way to come into a brainstorming session. It's horrible. I don't know about that. I mean, I run into people who've actually marinated in difficult things for a long time. And I just want to hear straight from them the insights they got. I don't mind. I don't think that's a terrible way to enter a conversation at all. I think that somebody who's really, really sat with something is super valuable.  Is the difference between sharing your hard one knowledge and being a know it all isn't there. And if you treat them as a know it all, that's like a chilling effect on somebody who's actually like got a lot to say. Does that make sense? Yeah, I understand. Yeah. So, so, so I'm trying to take advantage of the hard work that you and people like you have done. And respect it and honor it and like drag it in so that we can like build more stuff with it. I'd like to observe that there's a difference. It depends on what the goal of the brainstorming is. Is the brainstorming a way to raise group awareness or is it a beeline towards the right answer. And there's lots of other things the brainstorming could be accomplishing, but those are two different things and you would, you would listen to an expert differently in each of those. Agreed. Thanks Pete. Michael then Mark. This is not what I was going to say but just a comment on what Pete was saying and you two before. That, you know, is the brainstorming for that spark for that, you know, lightning in the storm of ideas, never uttered before never conceived of before where hearing the same ideas that somebody's been thinking for a long long time is, is making that possibility not as great. So, I was going to say in response to, to this thought about the post capitalist world something that kind of came up in both of the conversations we were having about that are the, are the, the incentives that we now think of as, you know, Gracie was saying capitalism gave us this capitalism gave us that well did capitalism give us that with those things that that the are to do what I'm best at, and somebody else's desire, you know, to make the art to, you know, invent the thing. Is it is it really driven by capitalism and certainly it's, it's, it's kind of, you know, the thing, the making art doesn't make you as much money as the inventing the post it, does, and, and it sort of skews things but the, the person who was working on making adhesives and resulted in the post it. It wasn't like that was their thing. And if, if you were in a situation where it wasn't reflected in your income, but reflected in your ability to do the thing you love to do, and produce, either produce a surplus of, of something that you would make or produce knowledge wisdom invention that served a lot of people and you got the sort of glory and gratification of serving those people. I don't know if that stuff would go away in a, in a, in a place where, you know, we were all getting everything we needed getting, you know, whether to you be I or just the sort of thing of like, you know, I get up in the morning. I do the thing that some of the thing that I'm really good at that, you know, I get gratification of seeing people enjoy some of the things that's just fun for me, because that's what I like to do, and keeps me healthy and sane, and other people provide stuff that that I get and need, alongside having their fun. And it's all good. I mean, it's, you know, it's, it's, it's more of a tribal, you know, it's, it's a way of being that scene and in some indigenous societies but it's seen in capitalist societies just like kind of having its incentives, tweaked in often unhealthy ways. If that makes sense. You will talk about unhealthy ways right now. So I'm very open about having a problem with having too much stuff. And when I try to get rid of stuff it takes a heck of a lot of energy. Both for, you know, as children, and they hang on to stuff by mother and father or hoarders. And so I've got too much stuff and too little time to get rid of it. And going to zero is what somebody described asked when I just described this problem yesterday. Have you considered arson. Um, I've, I've certainly considered arson in my parents houses I was growing up.  And starting from zero would be a catastrophe. Because we're historical creatures. And it's just, you know, this is a problem where people don't often solve it on their own. And, you know, it's, it's a problem for me that came from, you know, it really made me think about intergenerate intergenerational trauma. Easy for you to say. Yeah.   Um, but, you know, I would love to have one 10th of the belongings that I have and was happiest in my life when I lived the other books with one 1000th of the things that I have. But now I have things. And do I just burn them or find homes for them. Anyway, I'll let Michael or Ken talk. I was, we're near the end of our time. In mouse, I was very struck when Art Stiegelman describes his father hoarding tinfoil trying to return a half eaten box of cereal to the market for refund, things like that, as a Holocaust survivor who had been through a period of deep trauma where he had nothing and so every every little thing that was meaningful and that was just ingrained in, in his being at that point. We're near the end of our time I'm going to pass the floor back to Ken to see what he'd like to do. Yeah. And so Michael is going to kind of close out so if you get something quick. Michael wants ways which is a great topic like. I mean, I would love to devote. Maybe maybe it's a subject for the next time we do a topic based thing of like the stuff that we accumulate and making it, making it not have been a waste that we accumulated it. And the dynamics around that so I'll leave there. I want to thank everybody for playing in my sandbox today. I really enjoyed the opportunity to go deeper with a few folks in these breakout rooms so I appreciate that. Something I learned is I would, I guess next time I wouldn't frame it as post capitalism I think that costs a lot of prompts for people, but rather post apocalyptic, because it feels like the dominant narrative in the media right now is one of doom and gloom and apocalypse and impending nuclear war and you know drought and floods and fires and, and it's like, yeah those are all real but if we don't have a positive vision of the future work towards we're going to have a hard time creating that that future so that's part of the impetus for me to start this call. And I really, I think issues of power came up and I think it's just plain difficult because we're not often asked, we're often asked to solve problems but not often asked to say if you could, if you had a magic wand what would you create. Right. So, personally for me I found the call extremely eliminating, and I learned things that I wouldn't expect to learn I got pushed back that was expecting I welcome it all. It's been, it's been terrific. How about this apocalyptic yeah okay Michael. Would that be a dys apocalyptic or dis or dss dis s avoiding the post apocalyptic implies that we have to go through it to get there. Exactly. So a non apocalyptic world. And I just wanted to try to get us thinking there and you know, I totally agree it would be so awesome if we could be together, if we could, if we could actually do this in nature like where it could take a break and go walk in the woods and come back and you know do it over a couple of days and there's a lot of, of tracking stuff you know whiteboards and mural paper and you know, but I thought this was a really good start and I just very very thankful for the folks who showed up today, even if you didn't necessarily like it thank you for playing along. And can I want to thank you for suggesting the topic and for leaving us into it. I really enjoyed it. Lots of good stuff showed up in my head through this conversation so thank you. I'll put a bow on this. All right. Yeah, I'll I'll close with a poem from this is from memory this I may have resetted this before this is William Stafford one of my favorite poet says called ultimate problems.  In the white man's design there is no P. God is everywhere but hard to see the Aztecs rounds at this. How do you know that he's everywhere. And how did he get out of the P. Perfect. Thank you. Thanks everybody. Everybody. Bye.


I asked you to stick a parallelly shoulder. Hello, hello, Tim. Are you there? Can you hear me, mate? Good morning.  How do you make this look good?  Welcome back to the School of Calisthenics for another YouTube lesson. We are, you're going to wonder why we're holding a cushion and a parallelly shoulder. We're talking handstands, we're talking about variability. Yeah, we want to bring a little bit of motor control science to the table with this one. And what we're going to try and show you is kind of part of the same thing. But the science part of this is that we're going to try and broaden out your handstand skills. So many times when we're learning to handstand, we think about going in a linear progression. It gets pretty serious and bogged down. We can have a little bit of play and also improve the variability of our handstand skills by mixing it up, different surfaces, different hand positions, that kind of thing. Welcome to a mock version of my front room. Now, you might be wondering, why have you got a pair of parallettes, a bit of a rug and a cushion out? And we're going to explain about training variability and we're going to use some examples to show you. And this video is a little bit twofold. There's some real benefits of using parallettes and we'll come to those in a second. But what we're also going to talk about is a variability within just practicing on different surfaces to enhance the robustness and adaptability of your handstand skills. If we only ever focus by practicing on the same floor, the same gym or in the same place, we get really good at that. But then when you're on holiday, you're at the beach, you're in a park, you want to do a handstand. You might find all of a sudden, what is a really nicely honed skill, all of a sudden falls apart because the hand difference or the hand placement or the surface is a little bit sort of uneven and all of a sudden you can't do a handstand. It's a slightly different stimulus, just the surface. So it's good not only to build up that so that you can do it in other places, but actually it's quite a good part of training with a skill-based thing like a handstand to actually just build up those different options that you've got. So you'll find that when you go back to your favourite surface, it's actually going to feel a lot better because it's got even more variability built into that skill process that it's been working on. Yeah, when we talk about this, we're balancing on our hands and using like our feet. If we were only ever really good at standing on one kind of surface, when we go out and we go and climb a mountain or something, we were going to want to go and operate in a different environment. The system just doesn't know how to regulate or how to control itself. So think of it in the same way, add some variability and the great thing about this that I like is it brings in an element of play. It's just kind of fun to see can you do a handstand with one hand on a cushion, which we're going to have a go at in a minute, but just bring some stuff in, play with it, be creative, use skills which you are confident with. There's no point trying to do a handstand on a Bosu ball if you can't yet do a handstand on the floor. So build up so it's kind of nice and progressive. That's the first point and we're going to show you those exercises in a second one in a minute. The second one is about parallettes. Now, if you're finding that you've got wrist pain or you've got a history of some wrist issues, you're lacking mobility, whatever it might be, having your hand in this position with the whole of your weight bearing down on it could potentially be a little bit sore around the wrist. The parallettes are a great little alternative for that because we get to create this position which is more neutral for the wrist and it starts then just creating more stable shape ultimately. We might want to work towards getting our wrist mobility improved so we can do it on the floor. We might only ever decide that parallettes are the thing for us and that's entirely down to you. The other thing is when you're gripping, the finger position has changed and now we're gripping and it's almost like a joystick, but we know from what we know about shoulder health, we know that grip strength is related to rotator cuff strength and so we get a nice bit of activation of your rotator cuff so there's stabilisers around the shoulder by gripping tight into the parallel, into the bar as well. So as you see, when Tim's going to go up into this, you're going to see that the hand is working now like a joystick. So rather than the fingers and the normal handstand being the brakes to stop you going over the top, it's actually going to work like an old-school joystick. Anyone old enough that used to play video games on joysticks. But you can see there just the little small adjustments are now coming more from the wrist rather than from the fingertips. And so you can play around any of your progressions in there, whether it's your frog stands, whether it's taking one knee off, two knee off or whether it's wanting to go into some tucks and some full handstands, you can work through all of the different exercises that you're going to do for your handstand just using the parallettes as a variation. It may be because you've got some of those wrist issues that Tim talked about, or it might be that you just want to have that opportunity to when you see some bars to be able to do it on or just literally mixing things up just to give the brain a little bit of a different stimulus and you'll find that like, when you mix those two things together with your normal handstands on the parallettes it gives you that variability to your practice in your training. There's also a little beautiful sort of sidekick on this one in that the higher you go, even though you can do the skill on parallettes close to the floor, when you get up off the floor, the visual, the vestibular challenge around that changes a little bit. All of a sudden fear creeps in just a little one again for building some robustness. So if you want to go higher level parallettes and start to do some work on there, it's a nice little brain training session. The second part of this little video I want to show you is just around using some different hand surfaces. Jacko's boy cushion. Tim, can you do a handstand with one hand on? I thought you were going to go one on the cushion, one on the panel. Well, that could be it. It's just giving you some ideas of some of the different things. What have you got at home that you could actually just challenge a different stimulus and go, okay, rather than, and it might be, okay, you haven't done a full handstand yet, but you want to work on your frog stand and just build up some of that robustness and variability to the practice. Nice, well done, Tim. That you're just working on the level that you're at at the time. We should try that now, see if we can do it. The level that you're at at the time might be a frog stand, or it might be a wall kick-up or whatever it may be that you're at and just going, okay, I'm going to have a little play around bringing in some excitement from the play stimulus and then go just challenging the same end result of a handstand, or a frog stand, or a kick-up, or whatever it is, but just with a little bit of a different stimulus. The good thing about the cushion there is if you're a bit worried about your frog stand. Yeah, use it to practice the head going down. The confidence. The final one is you might be at your mate's party and he's got the sheepskin rug out and he's like, oh, can you show me that trick that you can do and you're like, yeah, of course it will. And then you've never, when you've never tested it out before, and say if you have had a very linear training process where you only use the same bit of floor with the same markings on it, with everything visually the same, then also in terms of like feeling dexterity exactly the same and then you just shift that and try and do it somewhere else. You might find that the whole, your whole skill set just falls apart. So this is my favorite sheepskin rug. I don't know if it's officially sheepskin, but go in taking, just feeling how it's different, like I actually haven't even done one on this yet, but it does feel... You can see it's definitely different. When you grip, the floor is now going to move a little bit. So it's just a variable from the training stimulus. Play around with it, guys. The idea being that we're just altering and mixing up the stimulus a little bit, forcing the neural system to learn something slightly different, develop the control strategies. You've effectively then got more tools in your arsenal and then were able to actually control and nail your handstand by having more variability in your practice. So be creative, keep it safe, work with skills that you can control. Have some fun with it, like the hum drum and the ongoing sort of pressure of learning to handstand. There's going to cool points where you get a bit bogged down. Great opportunity to take a side step out, play with some other things with some more basic progressions. Not only does it give you a brain a break, but I'm pretty confident that by just mixing some of this stuff up, increasing the amount of variability, developing the robustness of the skill, will actually feed back into the practice that you're working on in a very controlled, stable environment. So go sideways, not always work about broadening out that width of that skill, as opposed to always thinking about a linear progression of one step, got to go all the way through. Variability and what's the word I'm looking for? Variety, some other V. I want to find a little point on it, is that when we start to do some of these things and Tim said like play with it and actually giving your brain a break, but it gives you like mind a little bit of a break of if I'm very good, the thing I can do and somebody will panic when they go I can't do anymore. It might be one day just not feeling right for whatever reason and it doesn't go great. When you take yourself and put yourself in a slightly different environment to have a bit of a play and test yourself, you know it's not your normal thing so if you fail you don't feel bad about it because you're like I'm just learning. And it just gives you some of that freedom to actually explore and as Tim said, you will get better at your handstand and you're also going to have a whole toolbox of places that you're going to be able to do it in. So there you go. Loads of stuff to play around with it. Your opportunities with this type of training are limited only by your creativity, bravery and common sense. Yes. And all those things are going to help you get a better handstand in the end. So if you want to get on your handstand journey you want more content like this, we have got a full training program designed to take you all the way from absolute beginner through to Handstand Hero in our virtual classroom and you can head over there and check it out now. 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and Jenny Minto, who gave us a guided tour of Mike Russell's footwear. I am not sure that part was so welcome, but it urged us to be bold and made some very welcome literary references and a tour of her beautiful Argyll constituency. From Paul Sweeney, I am a fellow representative of Glasgow, and it is a very passionate speech. It is always great to welcome members to the Parliament who have an industrial experience in their background, and Paul brings that to the Parliament. He is clearly as passionate as I am about reindustrialisation and the great city of Glasgow. I am sure that, as the cabinet secretary has already said, we are embarked on a national endeavour here. I do not invite for members to take part in that conversation and bring forward their ideas, and I am sure that Paul will have a lot to contribute on that. Fergus Ewing made his speech from the back benches. He is very passionate about connectivity in the Highlands and Islands, and he has a point about the dualling of transport links here. I will ensure that my colleague, the minister responsible for transport, will take those on board. I am sure that he is watching and I have no doubt that he will be along in due course to the chamber to comment on those aspects. Jamie Halcro Johnston accepted the damage done by Brexit, which was very nice of him, but clearly not very nice for the businesses that have been damaged that way. It is a real indictment on the Government, the party that he is part of that brought such damage to Scottish businesses and Scottish economy. Paul MacLennan is advocating for East Lothian in talking about the importance of tourism, which is something that I do not have responsibility for too. I want to say a wee bit more about it in my remarks as I go forward and also the importance of the skills agenda. Pauli McNeill, another Glaswegian member, is talking with great force about the importance of the city that we represent to the recovery as we move forward. I have no doubt that I engage regularly with the Government and with Mr Patrick and the Chamber of Commerce and other businesses across the city. We are watching the impact of furlough unwinding very closely with a real understanding of the damage that could be inflicted upon the economy in Glasgow. What we need to do is part of our recovery plans to deal with that. Michelle Thomson is talking about two issues. First of all, about innovation funding, which is something that is set on our radar. We are working through the best approach, given that much of what comes from the UK Government and the importance of engaging with sectoral groups. Rest assured, much of that already happens through our very strong network of industrial leadership groups, two of which I am closely involved in perhaps more now. That vehicle is there because the Government recognises, as the cabinet secretary said, the huge importance of engaging with businesses, business people, entrepreneurs and representatives of sectors, and with the academics that are involved in those sectors to ensure that we work together in building that recovery that we all want to see. Daniel Johnson I am very grateful to the minister for giving way. He has named checked a lot of the sectors that were mentioned by members, but I was wondering whether he could deal with the substantive point. For as long as we have restrictions and for as long as we have no long-term clarity about what they will be and whether they will remain, it is very difficult for many businesses to operate. What many businesses in tourism and retail need is that long-term uncertainty. Can he explain how the Government plans to put that in place for those businesses as they try to get back on their feet? To be honest, Daniel Johnson's point, at the same point that was made by Murdo Fraser, I suppose that it is a luxury of opposition. It displays a naivety about the situation that we are in, because the reality is as unpredictable as the virus. Of course, the situation that businesses are in depends on what the situation with the virus is. Of course it does. Murdo knows that. The rest of the chamber understands that. We work very hard to make sure that we can communicate as much information as accurately and as close as we can to the situation. However, the reality is that, when the virus takes a turn for the worst—an answer that I was talking about—he knows very well that the virus taking a turn for the worst in our city of Glasgow is something that had to be addressed. It is very important that that is part of the way that we are doing it. I want to make some progress. It is very important that that is addressed as part of the four harms agenda. That is what we need to do. Of course, we support business as best we can. Of course, we give as much information as we can, but of course we also need to take it. As everybody will agree, we need to take recognisance of the direction that the virus takes. When it takes a turn for the worst, we need to react accordingly. Nobody, I believe, would suggest otherwise. I want to make some progress and I will come back to that. We heard from Maggie Chapman talking about the just transition something that the Government of course is hugely focused on and is looking to work together with all around the chamber in terms of taking that forward. That is a point that Murdo Fraser raised as well. I want to talk about that because I engage, as the Government does, with businesses in the oil and gas sector and the supply chain. It is very clear that, right across that sector, there is an absolute focus and a deep understanding of the need for that transition and for that to be a just transition. I have had the pleasure of working with oil and gas businesses on international trade missions but they have been there to move over to building products that they can supply into international markets in the renewable energy sector. That is hugely important and this Government is committed to working with that just transition and working with the sector to make sure that we transition over. Addressing the climate change issues, but also predicting and increasing, as the cabinet secretary said, the number of jobs in the energy sector in Scotland. Colin Smyth makes a very important point about the... I want to make some progress if that is okay. Colin Smyth makes a very important point about the rural aspects and why our recovery has to be addressing all parts of Scotland. That is, again, something that is central to the work that we have done in the investment strategy so far and will be central to the work of our economic transformation strategy as we take that forward. I want to talk a wee bit about Liz Smyth's intervention, because I think that there was a few points there. First of all, she is trying very hard, like an old Tory, to be the voice of business, but she is working in an environment where the Tory party has trashed the relationship with business and Boris Johnson, her Tory prime minister, told business to go forth and multiply extremely unhelpful for the approach that she is trying to take. She talks about us working closely with the UK Government and already addressed that point. In item after item after item, policy area after policy area, be it ship prosperity fund, be it level and up fund, be it substance control regime, be it trade deals or be it in green ports, the UK Government is refusing to engage with us constructively. Maybe Liz Smyth, when she gets up, she will give an undertaking to go and talk to Steve Bartlett and ask him why he has refused time after time to respond to my letters to have a conversation about where we are going with green ports and why the UK Government is preventing her roll-out in Scotland. I am grateful to the minister for taking an intervention. He said several times in his speech that the SNP Government is listening to what businesses are saying. One key issue that they are saying is that they do not have the certainty or the stability that they are looking for. Does he agree that that is a serious problem as far as the business community is concerned? I have already made the point very clearly. We give business community as much certainty and stability as we possibly can, but, of course, when the virus takes a turn for the worse, we have to respond to that. I think that anybody who is looking at this constructively would agree with that. Liz Smyth raises the constitution. We believe that Scotland should be independent. We believe that the future of Scotland is a normal independent country. We believe that that is the best route to generate the investment, the opportunities and the jobs that Scotland needs to make progress in the world. We believe that the gap between the other countries in the world of Scotland's size is much more successful and wealthier than us, with far less natural human resources that are necessary because they are not independent. I thank Liz Smyth for raising it and talking about its substantive issues, because it is a recognition on her part around the Tory Government's part that the time is coming when we will have that debate for real when we have the next independence referendum, despite what her and her Prime Minister say. Tourism has also felt the impact of the pandemic, but we are working very closely with the sector. I have had several meetings with the sector over the past two weeks to take forward a list of priority actions that will boost recovery as we go forward, including the £25 million that we are spending across a whole range of actions to support the recovery plan as agreed with the sector. As I am concluding, Presiding Officer, as the Cabinet Secretary has outlined, we are standing at a junction where we are identifying as a national endeavour. We are calling for those to come forward who want to contribute ideas, energy and enthusiasm to take this forward. As we pull together the council for economic transformation, as we build and write our strategy over the coming weeks for our 10-year plan for economic transformation of Scotland's economy, building on the great sectors that we have, building on Scotland's wealth, rich in resources, rich in skills and natural assets, many, many world-leading sectors, and building on those opportunities to translate that into a fairer wealth. We are well-being economy men in Scotland with fair work in net zero at its heart. I invite, as the cabinet secretary, those who want to be part of that to come and join us in those conversations. I look forward to coming back to the chamber to talk in more detail about that at a future date. That concludes the debate on economic recovery. It is now time to move on to the next item of business, which is consideration of business motion 199 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau setting out a business programme. I call on George Adam to move the motion. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. Moved. Thank you. No member has asked to speak on the motion and the question is that motion 199 be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. The next item of business is consideration of motions 208, 209 and 207 on approval of SSIs. I ask George Adam on behalf of the Scottish Government to speak to and move those motions. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. The health protection coronavirus international travel Scotland amendment regulation 2021. Those regulations make further amendments to the health protection coronavirus international travel Scotland regulations 2020 and are amended so that a person who tests positive for coronavirus earlier than the day on which they take a day 2 or day 8 test under the regulations must only continue to isolate until the end of the 10th day following the day in which the earlier test was taken. To exempt aviation maritime crew from the requirement to stay and manage accommodation if they have travelled in an acute risk country or territory in the course of their work. To add a category of specific specified competitions to schedule 3A in which the participating persons are exempted from the requirement to stay and manage accommodation where they travel to, through or from acute risk countries or territories to take part in that competition. To add Ethiopia, Oman, Qatar and Somalia to the acute risk countries and territories in schedule A2 and RU removes Mauritius and Portugal from that list. In addition, those regulations amend the expiry provisions of principle regulations, the health protection coronavirus public health information for passengers travelling to Scotland regulations 2020 and part 2 of the health protection coronavirus pre-departure testing and operating liability Scotland regulations 2021. They expire on 20 September 2021. The regulations came into force on 20 March 2020. If I can go on to the other points as well, the health and protection coronavirus restrictions and requirements local levels Scotland amendment number 18, regulations 2021. Those regulations amend the health protection coronavirus restrictions and requirements local levels Scotland regulations 2020. To allow places of worship to reopen in level 4 as a result of that change, the restrictions on leaving your home in level 4 and entering and leaving a level 4 area are adjusted to ensure that it is possible to leave your home and travel to your usual place of worship. Those regulations also make clear that it is possible to leave your home in level 4, travel into and out of level 3 and 4 areas, gather for the purpose of picketing. The regulations set out changes to the level that applies to Nan Ilan Siar, moving from level 4 to level 3 and all other areas remain in the same level. Finally, those regulations make a minor adjustment to correct some inaccurate cross-references, including the most recent amended instrument. Those regulations came into force on 24 March 2021. The final one is the health protection coronavirus restrictions and requirements local levels Scotland amendment number 18, regulations 2021. Those regulations amend the health protection coronavirus regulations, requirements local levels Scotland amendment number 19, regulations 2021, to bring forward the coming and forth state of the relevant provisions that allow places of worship to reopen level 4. Those regulations came into force on 25 March 2021. That is me, Presiding Officer. Thank you minister. The question on those motions will be put at decision time. There are seven questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first question is the amendment 165.4 in the name of Liz Smith, which seeks to amend motion 165 in the name of Kate Forbes on economic recovery be agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote and there shall be a short suspension to allow members to access the digital voting system.


don't mind me just dying there is so much snow on the ground right now and it's so dry in our apartment that like my throat just refuses to work hello hello everyone my name is Laura this is my channel Laura's little library and welcome to today's video which is a recommendations video type of recommendations video if you like this then you should read this has been going around booktube for many many years i've always wanted to do a recommendations video like this and i do see a lot of very similar themes and ideas between books but i am finally going to do one today so let's jump right into it the first coupling that i'm going to mention is if you liked finley donovan is killing it then you should probably read dial A for aunties so both of these books are actually books in a series they have at least one other book finley donovan is killing it the third one is being awaited by fans such as myself and dial A for aunties just had a sequel and i loved them all so they both kind of follow this unintentional murder but with mystery so finley donovan is a writer and she just went through a nasty divorce with her husband and is trying to take custody of her kids and she is a writer she writes mystery romance and she one day is overheard talking to her agent in a panera and the person who overhears thinks she's actually a hitman so she decides to hire finley to do a job while dial A for aunties follows our main character who is a photographer a wedding photographer for the wedding business that her and her four aunties kind of put on together each auntie specializes in some different element of preparing for a wedding and she gets set up on a date and that date goes horribly wrong and she unintentionally ends up killing her date and so her and her aunties have to figure out what to do with the body and how to get everyone off their trail while also putting on a wedding so you can see where the similarity lies in that they're both normal people who did not intend to do something wrong like murder but then it just kind of happened and now they have to go through this long comedic and kind of mysterious way of dealing with these effects the second coupling that i would like to mention is a little bit more on the sea side of things if you have read daughter of the pirate king the duology by trisha love and seller i think you would enjoy jack the jackie favor series jackie favor i think is a slightly younger audience i'm not sure if it was like middle grade or y a but they both deal with a powerful woman pirate going on adventures and whatnot and it's just so fun to read about so i think if you enjoyed one of these then you should definitely read the other i will say they both have great romance plots daughter of the pirate king is just a duology so your romance happens a lot faster and the banter is phenomenal versus jackie favor she actually is someone who dresses up as a boy for quite a bit of her pirate career before she's found out to be a woman and then the romance kind of gets going but it's a nice long series that'll they'll just make you laugh but also entertain you the whole way through next if you have read an enchantment of ravens i would suggest you read autumn's tithe so these are both heavily autumn themed they books they are perfect for november if you are still in the autumn mood for november so an enchantment of ravens features a human who is really good at painting portraits especially of the fey and so one day she is visited by the autumn prince to paint his portrait except she does the horrible horrible misstep of painting him with a little bit of emotion so then she has to go all through the fey realm and answer for her crimes blotta blocks that are and so forth this is a fantasy standalone and i adored this book so if you have read it or that sounds interesting you should also check out autumn's tithe this book also features the autumn kind of prince in a way in terms of the fey world but our main character here every year the autumn prince comes to take a young woman to be like the tribute to complete some mysterious task and they are told that the the person who is chosen will lead a beautiful and luxurious life in the fey world after that and her family is heavily compensated our main character's best friend has taken one year and so the next year she really wants to be taken so that she can see her friend again and she doesn't get chosen but she does find herself ending up in the fey world anyway and she learns there is so much more to this story than anyone had ever realized again both very it's the autumnal prince and human love story fey vibes i thought they were just absolutely perfect and the sequel to autumn's tithe autumn's traitor is about to come out i believe it comes out early december and i am so excited to read it i cannot wait to get my hands on copies of all three of these books really next up is a book that i've talked about on my channel quite a bit if you have read girl serpent thorn by melissa basher douce you should read this vicious grace so girl serpent thorn is kind of a sleeping beauty retelling along with a bunch of other things all jumbled together including persian mythology our main character is poisonous to the touch people and animals cannot touch her or they will die and that's not great and so she really wants to go to her brother's wedding uh there's this whole political plot happening and whatnot so if you have read this or you are interested in reading this i would also recommend this vicious grace so this vicious grace has a very similar premise in terms of our main character the fenestra cannot really touch people because she will kill them so this is an italian based fantasy where it's kind of in this fantasy world of italy and italian is like the old language but our fenestra our main character has to find her match because every 10 years 100 years there is an invasion of these demonistic creatures or demonic creatures that come and invade the land and she is the only one who can amplify another person's magical ability strong enough so that they can defeat these creatures and they believed that there are is a set of gods there's the god of chaos and then there's the goddess who they all love and so she needs to find her partner to amplify their power in order to defeat these creatures and the way that they do that is through touch except if she kills everybody she touches she is not finding her one true partner who won't die when she touches them so yes there is romance in these books there is lots of political intrigue and various like longing for human contact in these books and so i would highly recommend both of them the next pairing has to do a little bit more on the autumn cozy side of things with werewolves and just forest vibes and a little bit of magic and that would be for the wolf of course by hannah witton because i've been obsessed with this book again i've talked about it so much on this channel and i finally finished the sequel for the throne but if you have taken my recommendation to read this book and you're looking for something else to read i would recommend red wolf this is by rachel vidscent obviously these books look pretty similar with them both having our main character in a red cloak very little red riding hood vibes this one is much more of a stronger retelling of little red riding hood you've got your main character who lives with her mom and her sister in a little town and they are bakers and they are baking bread and that alone is just warm cozy vibes and she has to go to her grandmother's house to give her some bread and there is a bit of a love triangle but i didn't hate it and the romance is just so sweet and she learns a family secret and in this one for the wolf there is a wolfish creature that lives in the woods that this society believes that when the queen has twin daughters one must be to become the next queen and the other must be a sacrifice to the wolf in the woods in order to keep chaos from raining down in their town so this is much darker than for the wolf this is much more lighter cozy autumnal this is like dark blood magic cozy autumnal i would say still and this is part of a duology as i mentioned versus this is a standalone but if you need the wolfy vibes they're right here the final coupling that i have here are much more of the darker gothic romance but also murder mystery just various ties together so if you loved reading stalking jack the ripper by kary meniscalco or even if you read her other series but haven't read this one i would highly recommend this one i'm currently about to finish the fourth book and the final book in the series so this has our main character who wants to who uses studying dead bodies to solve murder each book follows a different mysterious kind of murderer through history so the first one is stalking jack the ripper and then we approach dracula and houdini and now the devil so if you enjoy solving mysteries through dead bodies with a female character in the 1800s you should read this but you should also read anatomy a love story by danish wartz this is much more your gothic romance so both of these have phenomenal romance plot lines if i do say so myself this stretches out through the four books in the series and is so good the banter is amazing versus this is a standalone gothic romance but again we have a female she is actually in edinburgh and she wants to study dead bodies again but she can't because she's a woman in 1800s she can't do anything basically she the professor of a class that she really wants to take says if you can pass the exam i will let you into my class and this has a much more eerie like scientific advancements are happening and she wants to get in on that so she finds an illegal grave digger to help her dig up bodies to study in order to prepare for the exam again so good dark spooky vibes for both of these romance women in the 1800 studying dead bodies seriously it is such a wonderful i've said vibes so many times in this video but honestly the atmosphere the dark mist like it's there you will just fly through these books if they sound interesting to you unfortunately this is a standalone but it does have quite a bit of an ambiguous ending but oh my word these are my latest obsessions i will tell you that so those are all of the bookish recommendations i have for you today if you have read any of them and agreed to my recommendation for its pairing or you have your own set of pairings that you think if i've read one i should read the other or just any recommendations i would love to hear them down in the comments below if you like this video give it a thumbs up and also let me know if you want to make more videos like this there are definitely more books that are very connected that would go well together also feel free to subscribe i post videos on sundays and wednesdays but as the end of the year is coming up i will probably be posting bonus videos quite a bit throughout the month of december and january so make sure you're subscribed and you hit the bell to be notified when a bonus video goes up otherwise i also have bookish social media linked down below that you can click on and follow me there see what i'm reading see what i'm thinking about it and get other various bookish updates from me but until i see you all in the next video i wish you happy reading


Hello and welcome to this session in which we will discuss database business intelligence tool which is a software application that allows organization to extract, analyze and visualize data from their databases for what purpose to gain insight, to gain more information and to make data-driven decision. So it's making you smarter in terms of using your data. These tools typically connect to various data sources such as relational databases, data warehouses, we spoke about those in the prior session, big data platform and provide users with a range of features and functionalities to manipulate and explore data. Now we're going to look at some tools and techniques. Bear in mind those tools are not comprehensive, in other words I'm not going to list them all there might be other tools but those are the most likely you will see on the CPA, CMA exam and the techniques you will need to be familiar with. Data visualization is one of them, queering and reporting, data modeling, data mining. Once again those are not the only tools but those are the most popular. Before we proceed any further I have a public announcement about my company farhatlectures.com. Farhat accounting lectures is a supplemental educational tool that's going to help you with your CPA exam preparation as well as your accounting courses. My CPA material is aligned with your CPA review course such as Becker, Roger, Wiley, Gleam, Miles. My accounting courses are aligned with your accounting courses broken down by chapter and topics. My resources consist of lectures, multiple choice questions, true false questions as well as exercises. Go ahead start your free trial today, no obligation, no credit card required. Starting with data visualization. What is data visualization? Basically using the eye, visually looking at things. It can help users identify patterns, trends and outliers and data quickly and easily and communicate easily because you're using graphs, their finding, communicate their finding with others in a more efficient way. Now we're going to look at some common types of data visualization. Now bear in mind data visualization for the CPA exam and the CMA exam is very important. Therefore I have a whole session about data visualization. So the tools or the common tools that I will show you here are much more in depth with visual in another session but I'm going to show you what they are. Bar chart. What's a bar chart? Used to compare value of different categories, you know, something like this, you know, bars, bar chart, they can be either horizontally or vertically. We could have line chart use, use to show trends over time by connecting dots over with lines. So basically showing you what's happening over time. We could have scatter plot to show relationship between two variables like X and Y sales and marketing by plotting them on two dimensional grid. We could have heat maps used to show distribution of data across different categories or dimension representing them as colors and grid. For example, we can show red is less sales, green is more sales, so on and so forth. Geographical maps. If you have distribution or sales across the globe, then you can have a geographic maps showing you your sales, maybe in a different color, more sales in a darker color or lighter color on the map itself. Now Tableau is a software that can help you do all of this plus much, much more is a popular database BI tool that allow you to create interactive visualization. It's pretty, it's pretty useful. It has a dashboard and report function. So it provides drag and drop interface that makes it easy to create those charts and graphs without any coding skills. And I strongly encourage you if you have time to learn Tableau, it's very important, querying and reporting typically involved using query language or visual interface to select and filter data from a database, simply put doing searches. Once the data has been retrieved, users can then format it in a report or dashboard, which can be shared to others in the organization. There are some common tools that use this technique, which are something called query builders, tools that allow users to build complex queries without again restoring the programming skills, basically user friendly, user friendly, parameterize report. What are they report that allow users to change the parameters of the report, such as date ranges or filters to get the customized results that you are looking for. Drill down capabilities, basically the ability to click on the data point in a report to see more details. For example, you might be looking at a count receivable, the full account receivable, the general ledger, you can drill down, maybe look at major customers from major customers, you could drill down to major geographical area, so on and so forth, to find more insight about the data, exporting and sharing the ability to export report and dashboards to different formats such as PDF and Excel and to share them with others in the organization. An example of this tool will be Microsoft Power BI, which is similar to visualization, Tableau, but again, different capabilities. Again, if you have time, learn Microsoft Power BI and add it to your resume as a future accountant. Data modeling. Well, what does that involve? It involves using visual interface to create entities, what are entities, tables, customers, order product and defining the relationship between them, such as customer placing an order for a product, so on and so forth. So basically modeling. Once the model has been created, users can then use it to explore the data in a more structured way and to create custom queries and report. Now you're connecting customers to product. Some common feature of data modeling and database BI tools would include entity relationship modeling, which is a technique for representing relationship between entities in a visual way. Entities means tables, like customers. Customers could have a table, orders, product, sales, so on and so forth. Data profiling, the ability to analyze the data to identify patterns, anomalies and other issues, basically profiling, looking at the data and making a judgment, what does it look like overall? Data lineage, the ability to track the origin lineage and movement of the data through different systems. Maybe that's important for you. Reverse engineering, that's very interesting. The ability to create a data model from an existing database or other data source. Basically, look at the data, basically some sort of a prediction, ability to create a data model from an existing database. You're looking at basically a model from the data itself. Basically, it has a prediction value. An example of a data BI tool that can help you with this data modeling is something called ER slash studio data architect. I'm not familiar with it, but it's worth looking at. Data mining is basically an all comprehensive technique. Basically, it's the process of analyzing large data set to discover pattern, trends, relationship that might not be immediately apparent from the data. Everything that we did is a form of data mining, but I'm going to focus here on data mining. The goal is to identify insight and knowledge. This is what we're looking for, that can be used to inform decision making, to improve business processes, or more importantly, gain competitive advantage from the data. The data mining process typically involves several steps, including first data cleaning and preparation, exploratory data analysis, feature selection and model building. So data modeling, data mining would involve many steps. It can be performed using a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques, regression analysis, decision trees, neural network, and clustering algorithm artificial intelligence. You could use so many different technology to do this. Come some examples of it to use, how you can come up with some useful example. If you have a customer relationship management CRM, a company might use data mining to analyze customer purchase pattern and identify which product or services are most popular among customer segment. You want to look at that. Financial institution might use data mining for fraud detection. Those are some examples, some minor examples. For example, sometime you might receive a call from your credit card company saying, you know, are you purchasing this item? And one time, frankly, I received a phone call, someone was using my credit card in London, in London, UK, and it was in New Jersey. So said, no, I'm not. So they automatically rejected the purchase. So financial institution might use data mining to identify unusual transaction pattern, because that's an unusual transaction. How did I appear? And, and like maybe 30 minutes later, I was at a gas station where I stopped, I bought gasoline, and suddenly somebody used my credit card in London. Well, it's unusual from the data mining, you tell the system if, you know, if there's like maybe in a mild, like, you know, how can somebody be transferred from New Jersey to London? So that could be an indication of fraud. Healthcare and healthcare, you can analyze patient data and identify risk factor for diseases or other health conditions. For example, a healthcare provider may use data mining to identify which patients are at high risk for developing diabetes based on the data, based on factors such as age, weight, family history and other medical condition. All in all, data mining is a comprehensive tool, is a powerful tool for discovering insights and knowledge. This is what we're looking for. We're using this business intelligence to do what? Gain insight and knowledge from large data sets, and it's, it has application in a wide range of industries and field. Okay, using statistical analysis, machine learning, data mining can help organization make more informed decision and improve business processes. And I, as we mentioned, the most important gain competitive advantage. What should you do now? Go to Farhat Lectures, look at MCQs, that's going to help you learn about this topic further. Yes, you listen to the lecture, you looked at BI, business intelligence, but what's most important is to test yourself to see how comfortable, how familiar are you with this knowledge. Whether you are a CPA candidate, CMA candidate, they can an accounting information system or studying for your, for your professional certification. Good luck, study hard, it's worth it. And of course, stay safe.