Linda Quinlan. I'm Ann Charles and before we continue with the show I'd like to say that we at All Things LGBTQ would like to publicly express solidarity with the protesters on the streets of this country and around the globe in their fight for a just and equitable world for us all. May we all prevail. I'm Keith Ghostland and indeed this is All Things LGBTQ. It is Thursday June 4th. We are taping in Montclair which we recognize as being unceded indigenous land. So let us start now with a few headlines. So Linda back to you. Take it away. My first story is about Chicago mayor Laurie Lightfoot who didn't hold back when asked if she had anything to say to President Trump during a press conference.  I have a human interest story about Arlene Hamilton. Another story about Chris Cooper the bird watcher in New York and let's see and journalist Keith Boken who was arrested and a little story about Larry Kramer. So who died in 84 last week I believe. So now we will move to Ann. Okay. I have many headlines. I'm not going to get to many of these stories but I have pictures for you. The story I will get to concerns scientists who discover gorillas engaging in lesbian sex for the first time. It's the first discovery. I'm sure it's not the lesbian sex for the first time. Costa Rica this is good news. Costa Rica allows same-sex marriages in a first for Central America. News from Poland. Liberal Warsaw mayor injects suspense into the presidential vote. This is about Rafał Trzałski he's 48. I have a picture before you now of him. He is giving the right-wing president a run for his money in the upcoming election. I hope he prevails. Ikea made manager charged with firing pole over anti- gay remarks.  The manager fired him and now the prosecutors in Poland have brought charges against the manager. So who may face fines or time in jail but we'll see how that develops. Hungary and this has been a long time coming. It's a terrible outcome. Hungary votes to end legal recognition of trans people.  The Zambian president pardons gay couple jailed for 15 years and the backdrop of this story I've told you about these two this gay couple was arrested and charged with being gay basically and the ambassador from the United States the ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foot protested publicly and condemned the arrest but then the Zambian president contacted the White House and asked Daniel Foot to be asked that Daniel Foot be recalled. So he was recalled. He lost his ambassadorship over this but it was a righteous action and now the president has pardoned the couple that he arrested originally. Happily ever after eludes Taiwan a year after Asia's first gay marriages. What this means is a petition is going around now because Taiwanese nationals can't legally marry somebody from another country if the country doesn't approve same sex marriage. So for example a Taiwanese wants to marry a Chinese national couldn't because China doesn't have any it hasn't legalized same sex marriage. So there's a petition circulating about that. We'll see what the outcome is. South Korea activists form a task force to fight the coronavirus fuel discrimination. And I have a picture before you now of some members of the task force. Remember last time I reported that South Korea had made progress in terms of the coronavirus but then one person a gay person allegedly went to a lot of bars in the gay section of Seoul and triggering a renewed outbreak of the virus. Whether or not this can be proved is irrelevant because the gay community was then blamed. So in response this these activists have formed a task force to fight against discrimination. A couple of more stories. North Macedonia activists protest as court scraps anti-discrimination law. This law was passed and a technicality occurred. It was passed with a majority of the people in the parliament as opposed to the majority of members. So it's been recalled the problem is that everything is at a standstill because of the pandemic. But when the courts reopen if this ruling party who is favorable to LGBT people is still in power then they can just pass the ordinance again. One hopes that's the case. Now good news from France. I'd like to share a picture now of Marie Koh 55 the first transgender mayor elected in France. Here she is. Now let's see a picture of Philip Normal who is 38 the UK's first openly HIV mayor HIV positive mayor. He teams fashion with politics because he's a fashion designer and the picture shows you he's kind of an interesting dresser. He's got a smart fashion shop in Brixton a fashionable area of London which is closed now of course but there he is. Two more stories. Manipur in India plans to set up a quarantine center for the transgender community and have a picture of that center. And finally got the La La Taiwan's first LGBT streaming platform launches and I just want to you know there are a lot of recommendations and they're ready to go but I don't want to forget this last story that I'm going to cover in detail next time the Land Literary Award winners have been announced on June 1st. So that's exciting news that we will explore in detail the next time. Keith. Thank you Anne and I'll be waiting to see if there's any names that we might recognize on those land awards. So looking at headlines here locally I want to start with last night the Montpellier City Council did enact a mask requirement in businesses in Montpellier and I am told that this had the full support of the business community because it sets a uniform standard. It will not be one business trying to enforce while another isn't. It's uniformed through downtown and there were all of the necessary inappropriate exemptions for those individuals who cannot wear a mask due to medical condition or other circumstances. So I'm going to give a plug again. The census if you haven't done it please do. One of the issues relative to the census is that this is the equation upon which federal funding is based and it is estimated that there will be between forty three and forty five hundred dollars per Vermont or counter counted that comes into the state. Now while the LGBTQ plus community may not have been included in the demographics for the census as we had hoped Vermont's government and infrastructure certainly knows we're here. We can have a voice in what happens to those federal funds once they get here but the money needs to get here and it was estimated that after the 2010 census that Vermont lost more money than any other state due to under-recording. I also want to acknowledge that on Sunday there is a rally planned state house in response to the incident in Minneapolis. The homicide by police. There will be a speakout and I believe there will also be a march associated with it. Friday June 15th which is if you're watching this on Saturday was yesterday was long-term HIV survivors. The epidemic isn't over. And just to note the names project the quilt the leftover fabric that they had for making panels acknowledging people who had died relative to HIV they're using that material to make masks for first responders in the San Francisco area. June is also Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. You thought I was going to say Pride Month. So there may be some questions coming up about what you know about Asian Pacific American history. Start your Google research now. Tuesday there were primaries that were held in New Mexico, South Dakota, Washington, DC, Montana and rescheduled primaries occurred Tuesday as well in Indiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Let's talk about it Super Tuesday. I will be doing more extensive reporting on future shows but the early assessment is the same as the 2018 election women candidates seem to do exceptionally well. And there were some well-known controversial conservative candidates that may not have made it through the primary. Here in Vermont there has been acknowledgment that in the House race within the Democratic Party there are three transgender women who have filed petitions. We will do a more extensive reporting on this in future shows. And you might want to look for one or two interviews. Could be interesting. And then I really do want to talk about what's happening in the legislature. Some of the bills that are of interest to the LGBTQ plus community and then a bit about how Vermont has responded to the homicide by police of George Floyd and the acknowledgement that there was a almost identical incident that happened in Tacoma Washington in March. So with that, Linda, it's back to you. Hey, thank you, Keith. Chicago mayor, lesbian, Lori Lightfoot didn't hold back when asked if she had anything to say to President Trump during a press conference. I will encode and code what I really want to say to Donald Trump and his two words. It begins with F and ends with U, said Lightfoot. The first out LGBTQ plus mayor ever elected to the city of Chicago. And we must stand firm in solidarity and say this is totally unacceptable no matter who the speaker is.  Lightfoot's message was in reference to Trump's Friday tweet that targeted protesters across the country who were demanding action against Derek Michael Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer who reportedly has 18 complaints on his record and only two ended in any kind of disciplinary action. Trump had referenced the racist phrase, when the shooting starts, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. In his comments, the phrase was previously used by former Miami police chief Walter Hedley, who in 1960 Miami vowed to control black protesters and crack down on the hoodlums. According to the Washington Post at one point in December 1967, Hedley said in reference to black protesters, we don't mind being accused of police brutality. They haven't seen anything yet. So she didn't hold back on that and good for her. Betsy DeVos's Department of Education threatens funding for pro-trans schools. High towns Monica Raymond is playing a fully realized lesbian lead in a Provincetown series on Starz. She plays a woman grappling with addiction and is trying to solve a murder. The series was created by Rebecca Cutter and is dark, sexy, and very queer. So you might want to tune into that if you can. I hear an interest story about how Arlene Hamilton went from homeless to Wall Street. She's the founder of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm, which was founded in 2015 while she was homeless. The firm seeks to address disparities in technology industry by investing in companies that are high risk potential entrepreneurs who are women people of color and LGBTQ people. Backstage Capital has raised over $10 million and has invested in more than 130 startups.  So congratulations to you. Then we have a story by Chris Cooper about Chris Cooper. The bird watcher and sometimes substitute for Ann Northrop on AUSA was a man in Central Park who had a confrontation with a woman who was walking her dog without a leash. Dogs must be leashed in this part of the park, the ramble. At this time, be it to protect the birds, you migrate there. Cooper started to videotape her when she pulled on the collar of her dog and refused to leash him. Then she threatened to call the police and tell them she was being harassed by a black man in the park. What seemed to be a deliberate racist act. Who knows what the police would have done had they actually arrived on the scene in time to deal with this. His sister apparently has put the video on camera, on social network and got a lot of hits. So after the event went viral, she lost her job and has gotten death threats. She has since apologized to Mr. Cooper who has accepted her apology. So journalist Keith Boken was arrested and detained in New York City over the weekend while photographing by photographing and filming the protest against police brutality and recent killings of black people by police despite being identified himself as a member of the press. Boken said the police did not read him his rights. A contributor to CNN and a former White House aide Boykin who is gay said he sat in a van for more than an hour before being taken to the police station where he was placed in a cell with about 35 other people who had been arrested at the protest. He was finally let go with the summons to a parent court for blocking the highway. So and also I have a picture of him which you will see now and and also he was in a cell that you know with 35 people no masks no anything so hopefully he's okay. And lastly I just want to give a quick shout out to Larry Cramer who died at 85. He saw it to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public health emergency and foresaw that it would kill millions regardless of sexual orientation. Larry Cramer is a noted writer and playwright and his husband David Webster said the cause was pneumonia. So anyway we will miss him. He was a huge force to be reckoned with in the LGBT community and we'll miss him a lot. So okay we'll move on now. To me well let me I hate to correct you but he was 84 Larry Cramer.  A scientist has reported what seems to be the first occurrence of same-sex passion among female gorillas and I am certain this isn't the first occurrence it's the first time the scientist discovered it. Associate professor of Dr. Cyril Groyder, primate expert from the University of Western Australia, was examining the feeding patterns of gorillas in Rwanda when he made the stunning discovery not so stunning to some of us. He told Daily Mail Australia instead of seeing aggression between females over food we saw them engaging in sexual behavior which was quite surprising. Dr.  Now we don't know that they were rejected by males either I think this might be Dr. Groyder's assumption. Of the 32 of the 22 female gorillas examined from 2008 to 2010 18 engaged in sexual activity with other females including genital rubbing genital closeness and mating calls during intercourse. Now let's pause and see to see a picture of two female gorillas engaging in sexual activity.  Bisexual gorillas apparently. The study published in the journal PLOS ONE states that 12 out of 43 homosexual events 28 percent involved at least one female that was also involved in the heterosexual act or the same preceding on the same preceding or following day. He told Daily Mail Australia it's not necessarily it's not necessarily that they have the same same sex orientation is purely sexual behavior. Dr. Groyder also observed that females engaging in same sex intercourse would often seek privacy by hiding in dense vegetation you can't blame them. The academic said the study was significant as it might contribute to an understanding of the evolution of such behavior in humans. He said gorillas are closely linked to humans and we thought by looking at this behavior we could learn a little more about our own evolution. So there we have lesbian gorillas in World Wanda. On to Keith. It's nice to know that the penguins have a bit of competition now. Yes. So looking at our legislature some of the things that we're going to be following and I will report more extensively on future shows is there's a bill that had been stalled within our legislature that people now believe will get additional momentum and it has to do with law enforcement's use of force and related the Burlington police department after the demonstration that was held in Burlington over the weekend immediately rewrote their policies as it related to what is and is not justifiable use of force. Use of force when it occurs will be investigated very positive and immediate response. There's the older for Montress Act that we're going to be following closely because a piece of the conversation surrounded reconstituting or bringing back the older for Montress Task Force. We need to advocate that both consumers and advocates from within the LGBTQ plus and other represented communities are included on the task force and not merely representatives from agencies and nonprofits who provide services to Vermont's elders. There is also an initiative started in the Senate that has actually passed the Senate that would give the Secretary of State's office total authority for mail in voting. The Secretary of State could investigate and establish a protocol by which mail in voting could occur in Vermont and looking at COVID mail in voting everyone could be equally represented. People would get a postcard saying you're entitled to this is how to do it etc. There was actually move on a national level to try and institute this across the country. It is getting a pushback from conservatives as one might expect because this would have a great impact on those districts who on preview shows were reported were jury-mandered and that communities of color people living in poverty their districts were spread spread across a wide geographic area polling places were not accessible and were not open the hours that would accommodate people's work schedule or on public transportation systems. The other piece that we're going to look at with the Vermont legislature is there's an initiative going through to provide economic relief to Vermont's Latinx farm workers. These are people who come in on an annual seasonal basis. They are essential workers. They have been excluded from any effort on a federal level to be included within the stimulus package. Vermont legislators have recognized how essential they are to our farming communities and they're looking at trying to put a provision in place to provide them with economic relief. So looking at how Vermont responded to the homicide by police and the response is fairly uniform you know both from within the current administration and from within law enforcement itself. Statements came out that it was barbaric inexcusable reprehensible that it was their belief that the officers involved all to be tried in charge for murder and held fully accountable. There was this statement that was given by Mike Schirling who is the commissioner of public safety that sort of summed up Vermont's law enforcement response. If you're in this job for any other reason then community service with empathy and to provide a requisite level of protection to those who need it you should be looking elsewhere. We're past the point where this is something we should be discussing and the Scott administration has actually put in place an equity task force to look at racial disparity within Vermont. Vermont's infrastructure is the systemic response and looking at what it's going to take to effectively respond to it and Zana Davis who is Vermont's first director of racial equality made a statement about everyone accepting their responsibility for stamping out white supremacy.  It means that your skin color isn't one of the things making it harder. White silence equals violence. So and I also want to acknowledge that there have been some reports about an incident in St. Johnsbury where during a demonstration four of the protesters were taken into police custody and from the report it seems as though what had occurred is the demonstrators had moved from the sidewalk to blocking traffic and that's when law enforcement had stepped in. However the St. Johnsbury police department has said the incident will be fully investigated and appropriate response is taken. So with that I'm actually going to turn this back to Anne because she conducted a recent interview that she'd really like to introduce for us. Thank you and before I introduce the interview I'd just like since we're up to the minute with our reporting I'd like to add to Linda's story that of course three other officers in Minneapolis have been arrested and I'd like to start I'd like to introduce the interview with a clarification if I may. It was my great honor to introduce to interview Huli Lapera. Huli uses they them pronouns and in the interview I used the wrong pronoun a mistake that I deeply regret and apologize for. That said enjoy the interview. Hi everybody I'm here with Huliana Delgado-Lopera Huli as she likes to be called who is a first-time novelist and writer of great promise and influence so welcome. Thank you thank you Anne for having me. It's great to have you here. I'd like to just do a bare bones biography if I may speak of you in the third person Huli was born in Columbia moved to the states in Miami when she was 15. I may say has ambivalent feelings about Florida as many of us do and now lives in San Francisco and we were just saying that this is a benefit of our being able to telecommute now because we can you know talk to people all over the country and that's a great strength so I'm very pleased and thank you for joining us. Yeah I'd like to start with your earlier work just so the audience has a little more information about you. In March 2017 you wrote Kyureme which is kind of not imprecise but a cross between love me and like me and that foreshadows some of the experiments with language that appear in your current novel and we'll talk about that. The second collection that you edited is Quentin Melo a bilingual collection of oral histories and that was published by Ian Bluth also right in 2070. I love that publication I love small presses and I love the feminist press that produced your novel which is Fiebre tropical and that came out March 4th 2020 unfortunately at the outset of the pandemic so all your a lot of your face-to-face book events probably have been cancelled. Yeah all of them. Yeah before we continue though I do want to say that you have two events that are coming up in June one is at the LGBTQ center in New York City which many of us have been to and we applaud their work and you're going to be talking with another distinguished writer Sarah Schulman whose work I certainly admire and this is she was involved she did a reading at Sister Spit that I saw on the Bowery in New York several years ago and you were involved with Sister Spit I was involved with Sister Spit yeah I was running writer productions for four years right and you're no longer doing did you want to take time to write and yeah I left last year and so I did four years there was wonderful we did the Sister Spit tour for four years we didn't go to the East Coast but we did West Coast and the Southwest and it was just one of the most magical things I've done it's also just a lot to direct and lead an organization it's quite a lot of work and what's happening with it now oh Imani Sim so she was the managing director then and she took over as the executive director and is doing a wonderful job with it they're probably having a lot of different contingencies so not because nobody can really get together anymore yeah I mean it's a huge challenge oh yeah well the next thing I would like to talk about is February Tropic Cal and as I was saying to you earlier I first became aware of the novel when Miriam Gerba published an essay in The Guardian called Beyond American Dirt the best books to understand Latinx culture and February Tropic Cal was among them and Sarah Schulman describes it on the cover here as breathless, hungry, funny, fun the new immigrant novel in a knowing sea all Colombian lesbian voice this novel is much needed and alive so congratulations it's gotten rave reviews thank you thank you and I I'd like to talk a little bit I mean Gerba describes it as coming of age coming out story coming to America saga all these things wrapped into one and it's written in what a lot of people say is described as spanglish so my experience of reading it was is what you describe it's I I looked up everything and I couldn't find all the words and so I was kind of carried along by the narrative which you say is comparable to the immigrant experience yeah I mean thank you for that introduction and I'm very excited to be here speaking with you um it's interesting because when I set out to write the book I didn't think I was gonna write an immigrant experience I didn't think I was gonna write a queer experience I didn't think any of it I was really attracted to the characters and the story grew out of the baptism the baptism scene that's kind of like where the story started and then it just blew up and I was just really in love with the characters and so I just want to I just want to preface with that because it's really important to me that like I started this just by being enamored by the story and being enamored by the characters and the characters all just happen to be immigrants and so in a way the in the aftermath of writing the book and in retrospect I really see how the blending of languages for somebody who doesn't speak both languages is a way of mimicking what immigrants go through which is we have to be constantly in translation every single day I mean I've been in the States for 16 years and I speak perfect English and every single day I still have to translate a lot of things you know including like idioms humor and so it does it does mimic some of that experience of us having to be kind of like always not quite there with the language and the culture as a whole I remember having a friend who was from Spain and she saw she went back to Spain and saw play and said I understood everything you know because she's been living in the US and speaks beautiful English also but you know it's uh it's got to be a struggle yeah tell me about your influences if you would how did you happen to evolve into writing this novel yeah so I mean the influences I can say that go back to me even being a kid I grew up in Colombia I grew up in Bogota and I come from a family of a lot of women my mom has five sisters my grandmother had five sisters and so there was a lot of women and a lot of women who really know how to talk and who really are great storytellers and so they speak with with their hands they talk with their mouth they use a lot of their body their great are making up words are inventing things and they're just like great narrators and I grew up around my grandmother a lot and I would come home from school and I would go to her house and the bus would drop me off at her house and she would let me like watch a bunch of TV and telenovelas and we would both like reenact scenes from the telenovelas and my grandmother was a seamstress and a cook and so I know that my early years with language really exploded because my grandmother gave me a lot of space to play and experiment as I suffered in my own house my mom's house was very rigid I went to an all-girl Catholic school my mom was like very very organized and orderly but it was when I went into my grandmother's house with a kind of like free flow just really like sparked a lot of creativity for me and then when I moved to Miami I also moved with a lot of my family so I was again living with a lot of women and I was again living with my grandmother and I remember the first few times while I was down there that I heard so Miami is very much built by Cubans people don't know this Cuban started moving there in the 60s and it's like literally built by Cubans and so there's places in Miami that you everything is written in Spanish or is Spanish and you really there's literally neighborhoods where nobody's speaking in English and so I remember when we got there and I heard Cuban people translate idioms straight from English into Spanish and Spanish into English and I was like amazed at what was going on um so it was definitely in Miami that I started really picking up on this playfulness of language that immigrants were doing and it was mostly because like I saw it I first saw it with Cuban people there but then my own family started learning English I started learning English and we started like blending it in in all those different ways into our into the fabric of our lives and the way that it came inside in our lives was through you know mispronunciations different accents making up of words my grandmother never learned any English but she would pronounce everything phonetically in Spanish when you told her to and I would always laugh she knew that it was just funny and now I know in retrospect that I like I will write down all those words that she will make up I was always a little kid with like the little notebook going around and like our um our family gatherings and I would just write down the stuff that they would see because they were so funny and I believe that most human beings have just like poetics in them we just don't pay attention sometimes but if you want somebody to speak like they will come up with some like gorgeous metaphor about something or just something really funny um and so I really started seeing how the English that I was learning in school I got to the States into I think it was eighth grade um was very structured and very standard and I didn't do well there at all but then when I would leave school I heard the English on the streets the English that was like meshed with like other immigrants it wasn't only like humans but like Argentinians there Haitians there there Jamaicans there and so everybody was like building in English in however way they could um and that really solidified my love for for English and then it was when I got to San Francisco I only stayed in Miami for four years when I got to San Francisco 11 years ago the English here then is very different because then it's it's blend with Mexican Spanish so it's like Central American Spanish is here you know Cubans have it over there and if you go to New York it's like Puerto Ricans and Dominicans um but they all have like this beautiful playfulness and I love it because people are just trying to get to understand what's going on in front of them and because the reality doesn't fit a standardized language they just make it up and I you know then I started reading like Mexican American writers and I learned that even at the turn of the 20th century people were already writing in both languages um there's there's like farm workers and there's people who like literally when they're bored across them they were writing still and they started writing in both languages and so I was very influenced by um by Toni Morrison for instance also reading other writers that were not Latinos that were doing beautiful uh work with um slang or dialects um so Toni Morrison I read Beloved many times and I like love that book a lot there's a Chilean writer Copero Le Mabel who writes in Chilean slang and it's queer Chilean slang so he died about like five years ago um he was an opposer of the Pinochet regime and he wrote as like the sissy, faggy, you know indigenous queen um and her his writing was just so so beautiful and it also very playful and very queer um there's another Latin American writer Corita Indiana who's Dominican and she also does she does merengue so her her writing is beautiful because incorporates some of that rhythm of music into it so those books have had a lot of influence when I was writing this one as well as you know who know Diaz uh the way briefly one does life of Oscar wow Jenny Capo who's another latino writer who wrote Living Hialeah and also blends language really beautifully um so some those are some of the influences in the book and also you know I speak a lot about my influence with nightlife in San Francisco and how that really seeps into my writing so drag queens have have had a huge impact in my work well and that made me think you know when you talked about um your grandmother and the telenovelas I in one in an interview I read that after they were over you used to you and she used to perform them and I thought this foreshadows maybe your career as a performance artist yeah I mean I don't know maybe like I just loved and and now you know my mom talks to me now and she remembers being like oh when you were a kid you were always um putting together plays and you were just I was always directing people um and it was definitely my grandmother who just led that creativity like explode um and she did I mean I don't know if that's entirely for shouting that I hope it is I feel that she definitely not sure the big creative person in me by allowing me to just play and experiment um but we did I used to sing the beginnings of all the telenovelas and then she was she was sewing so she always had like a bunch of like textiles in her in her apartment and she would let me like wrap myself around and she would just wouldn't say that everything was messy and disorganized yeah that's wonderful well let's hear a little of uh the novel are you going to read from fiery tropical sure yeah I have a little I haven't read this one yet so I'm excited about reading this part um it's uh page 71 if people want to follow along and it's chapter says it's at the church and can you set the scene for us a little bit yeah so we are in uh Christian church in Miami and she were about to meet this um girl who got laser and her sideburns so she could like marry this lead singer of the church and so there's you know all the women are kind of like around her and seeing what's going on in francesca who's a lead character and the girl that's telling the story has a weird relationship with being so um so closely in this like bodily moment with with them but at the same time she feels pulled in by the idea of just belonging to a group of being welcomed somewhere so we're in the church this girl just got laser surgery and her sideburns and she's very excited about it very good okay chapter says the next Sunday at iglesia cristiana jesucristo rector a crater group of women circle and touch a young woman's face hunger couldn't have been more than 25 years old she just got a laser on her face she had a really bushy sideburns like a man and now miracle she returned her free fully woman and ready to testify about it apparently sideburns on girls are no no for god especially if we want to marry the lead singer dude by the stupid name of art which she did or if you want to join the inner church circle which she did the pastor has paid for the laser church with church money and made a point of telling the entire congregation how they supported this dream art now loves her look at their pure love of course it was an obvious church expense since the girl now will be climbing the ranks with a smooth face the man stood on the other side of the room or the collective female crowd worked as one big microscope on her face we all wanted a piece of her transformation to a higher more perfected female version it was obvious that all these women used to directly indirectly make fun of her it was obvious all the praising carrier with it an underlying feeling of jealousy of anger now we all touch our own sideburns not as bushy as hers but tiny hairs on the last our amount of what we were still not as pure and definitely not as chosen nobody was paying for us to become more womanly and therefore more desired by the higher ranks of the church and thus began the jealousy roller coaster ride all of us with hungry tentacles stretching out into her body everyone took turns running their fingers along her silky cheek commenting on her newly acquired beauty she seemed thrilled with all the attention nodding and repeating i've wanted this all my life i've wanted this all my life art is so excited for me we're finally getting the church's blessings ambious miles all around when my turn came to touch her i declined it's okay if you pressed touched it it's so smooth i didn't want to turn somebody else's skin she was already sweating from all the attention and it felt disgusting to run my fingers on both sweat and skin all i suddenly landed on me that that would later update me on the gossip of the girl's church history she was a nobody people spoke of her hairy face as if she was some abomination brought by satan only in whispers only in passing she was evidence of biology going wrong and of the women's innocence of superiority when staring at her hairy body now she had undone every single bitch and clawed her way to the hairless top in columbian girl where this is called arrisa in columbian church world is just called america from the benevolence of papi ideals who refuses to let his daughter suffer amen of the day i remember running two fingers on her cheek the girl's proud smile i remember the feeling of being invited into the circle of joining the women into this ritual as gross as touching her felt it was also an invitation i too went ahead and run two fingers over her skin something about it felt wrong and yet i was inside a circle welcomed in the pastor just called from us from the podium las mujeres please do us a favor and stop the gossip and go sit hairless girl then hug me she said christ believed in me i carry her face inside me that day a weird feeling of closeness great thank you yeah you're welcome that sounds like a little queering of language which is an expression you've used about um your use of language in the novel do you want to talk about that a little bit or yeah we can talk about that i mean i feel um that queering of languages um can can take can take many different shapes and so i feel that this queering is not necessarily because it's talking about queer subjects um which it is but it's also because the language is veering off from the normal and what we assume is a normal way of approaching language and so the the book really picks up on slang immigrant slang and specifically columbian slang and it blends it in with english and so in this way it's moving it away from the standard what i'm calling also white english which is what it's generally um taught as good english and it's interesting because i get asked you know about the language in the book and i and i tell people that um everybody makes a choice as to how they write and when we write when we read a book that is told in a you know a third person objective masculine voice um it is still a choice it's just seen as the normal and so it's it's rarely that question you know and so like spanglish is very much other steel and so i believe that in its otherness it's queering language and overturning the binary of either english or spanish exactly um yes well is there we're coming to the end of our interview unfortunately time is flown flown by is there anything you want to leave us with any final thoughts um well i think you that i mean all i want to say is i would love to encourage people to explore and experiment um and i you and i were talking about how a lot of writers sometimes don't use other like art forms and other parts of their lives into their own creative you know creative practice and so um the way that i arrived here and in my own in my own writing it's really important for me to pay attention to the things that really feel true to me and that really call me and so i talked about drag i also gone into the woods a lot um i see a lot of visual art and i hang out with people that are not that don't read that much and so i just like those although all those things are part of my i just hang out with a lot of drag queens and performance and so uh all those things have such a huge influence in who i am and my ability to be able to craft voice and to craft storytelling comes a lot not from literature i read a lot and i've always been an avid reader and i've read all my life so i think that that's extremely important as a writer to read a lot and at the same time just really listen to the world um that is not language based i remember learning ones that bioluminescence is the most widest like form of communication and it's not language it's bioluminescence which is amazing that light is like what's used the most in the natural world as a communication device and that just really blew my mind because i'm like oh my god i'm such a writer and i'm a gem and i also so i'm like will buy mercury and i'm always just like you know but just really to be able to take a step back and be centered like language and human experience from a mode of communication was just such a beautiful moment for me of like learning um so it's just an invitation to let folks feel inspired by the world itself and see how like the world can seep in into their own creative practice in ways that sometimes we can't even like articulate wonderful well that's a great note to end on thank you holy i hope you're able to come again and we can have another that was a great interview and thank you it was a pleasure so i also understand that the name might not be included on this year's lambda awards because of the timing of the release but we should be looking next year you betcha and i'll be rooting for them yes and with that linda take us home okay let's remember through the pandemic and the riots we must always resist


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Thanks everybody for turning up, Joel Ben here, business analyst in the services team. So the developers did a great job over six months of plug and play architecture that we can extend quite easily and quite quickly. One of the outcomes of that was really these plug and play widgets and services that we can offer through this developer toolbox and also going forward we can offer additional ones as open source tools that people can extend and also feedback into our repository as well. And the services themselves sort of expose a lot of the powerful components behind the registry and research data Australia to external developers. So these are things like searches and vocabulary services to pull information out of our vocabularies that have got published. Obviously external users can use them to tap into explore the Australian research data commons or research data of Australia and the services themselves are used in a lot of the case to underpin their hands widgets. So as I said before, if a developer has sort of hit the limits of a widget where they'd like to extend it, they can actually look at these services themselves and either extend the widget or build their own widgets by these services. These are quite well documented. The first service is the GetRivCS API and this is just a way to really get access to the contents of the collection through registry itself. Via the service you can perform quite complex searches of the registry to pull back specific records or records in a specific group based on specific subjects and things like that. Now this service itself pulls out RivCS XML. So it's useful to people that understand RivCS XML or using it in their own repository. It's also one of the uses is obviously to populate a pick list through a lookup service. So there may be again in a repository people are doing the relationships to RivCS to records and they can basically do a populated pick list of say collections or parties from a certain institution or all grants from a specific year or something similar to that. So again just the address research data australia.au. The web services themselves, they're not as pretty because there's no real fancy front end to them. There are little explanation diagrams for each, I think nearly all of the services that we have just showing sort of how they work. There's obviously the description and the use cases for each of the services, how people might want to implement them and the useful points about them. As you can see here before you start the one thing to note about the services themselves is that any developer that wants to use them actually has to register for a API key that they pass when they call them the services and that's just the way of us knowing and identifying who's actually using the services. You don't have to be a user with a log onto the registry. You can just click the link and it'll take you to a publicly accessible page where you fill out the organization, the contact email and why you want to basically use the API key and you click register and it will write there and then generate your key to pass with the service calls. In much the same way as the widgets, we have tables containing all the parameters that could be passed to the services themselves and again developers will understand that and if they don't they can get in contact via the community forum. In some of the services they're a little bit tricky. There's some FAQs or common questions about the services just to help out and a couple of example uses of working service calls and that's pretty much all I've got.


The maintainer is hard-working, a problem-solver, motivated, they keep the Mew fly. That's why I chose the B-1. My name is Corporal Timothy Berman. I'm a V-22 avionics technician, Colorado Duny Specter, and I'm a VMM-163. The maintainer's place on the Mew is a very big place. These aircraft fly almost daily. Aircrafts have a lot of discrepancy as they need to get fixed. It's our job to fix them. On the Mew, we're in a different environment. These birds react differently to it. Having the saltwater air around us, that's definitely kind of bad for our avionics components. So we see a lot of different issues that we wouldn't see as to where back in the rear. So without safe aircraft, without the maintainers providing safe aircraft and providing safe maintenance done on those aircraft, aircraft wouldn't be able to fly and transport people from point A to point B. Without maintainers, you wouldn't be able to sustain aircraft. Aircraft wouldn't be able to fly. You wouldn't be able to transport those ground troops from the boat to shore and back. What keeps me motivated to keep working on these hot days is making sure that the aircraft have safe maintenance performed on them. I'm a little girl. I work every day to see her. Being that force and readiness, the fact that I'm part of something big, part of something a lot bigger than what I am. Being able to see the aircraft that I work on eventually take off and fly. And to me that's the most rewarding part of my job.


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meet with leading figures in Scottish education, but the main thing that he advised me about, which I have never forgotten, was that one of the main critical issues in education was the attainment gap. The final point that Mr Russell made, Presiding Officer, is that he is very happy to work with other parties to improve the attainment gap. I would like to remind him of page 225 in grasping the thistle. The SNP needs to recognise and give up its outmoded prejudice against talking with the Tories. Here we are. I am always waiting and I am even willing to tolerate and to view that portrait through all these future meetings. I look forward to that. I am always happy to talk with Mary Scanlon. She is the acceptable face of the Tories. Unlike the ones who are sitting immediately behind her. Secondly, I am very happy to gift her this portrait, as she seems so keen on it. Mary Scanlon, it is just that I cannot afford your book at £50 and I have to borrow it from Liz Smith. On the point of this debate today, I welcome the Labour Party, because every single contribution from that party welcomed the debate and acknowledged that more can be done. It focused on the critical early years. Given time constraints, we have not all had time to do that. I think that often we look at primary, secondary, further education and higher education. The more I read in this job that I am doing, the more I appreciate that it is the early years that counts. I commend everyone who mentioned the difference that a good nursery education can make prior to school. While I am talking about this, I think that we should all value the childcare workers in Scotland who now have to be qualified, they have to be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council, they are accountable to the care inspectorate and they do a brilliant job for children prior to going to school. I just say that most of them are on the minimum wage. Never mind the living wage, the minimum wage. While we talk about teachers, can we maybe just not forget the excellent job that they all do? Jane Baxter on looked after children and McTaggart and Ken Macintosh. I know that he was cut off at extracurricular activities, but it is identified as being one of the many issues that can help opportunities for future. Despite our different political ideologies, I thank the Labour Party for acknowledging the challenges that we face. Liam McArthur is very measured and considered and again on the early years and for each pound invested before the age of three, it can save 11 pounds later in life. Margaret Mitchell on dyslexia and for her commitment to chairing the cross-party group on dyslexia over many, many years. I actually thought that Mark McDonald made some very good points also on additional support needs and I hope that that has not been detrimental to any ministerial prospects in the pending reshuffle that may be coming his way. Stuart Stevenson, to Stuart I would say, perhaps he should check how many of the SNP Murray councillors were on the education steering group who were responsible for the review of the school estate in Murray prior to speaking in this Parliament. When it comes to local authorities looking at the school estate, perhaps we have more in common, Mr Stevenson, than you realise. I agree with you that it is not enough just to focus on pupil numbers, particularly in rural areas. A good example of that is Millins High School in Falkibyrs, which was recommended for closure by consultants, but those consultants failed to pay any attention to the school's excellent entertainment levels, which compared very favourably, as the member said, with other schools in Murray and virtual comparators across Scotland. I would also like to commend the excellent work done by teachers and support staff across Scotland for their commitment and dedication to pupils from all backgrounds every day of the week. The one thing that I notice, particularly in the recent referendum debate, is the political knowledge that I certainly did not know at school. It is the knowledge of the environment and it is also the knowledge and confidence that young children have in a partnership with teachers that was probably not there many years ago. As Liz Smith said, in S4 fewer than 20 per cent of most disadvantaged pupils attain five standard grade passes, while 60 per cent of the more affluent peers do. That is neither fair nor is it sustainable. It cannot be the case that a child's postcode determines their educational attainment. I think that that is something that we can all agree on. We may disagree on the solutions and on a way forward, but I am also very pleased that under the convenership of Stuart Maxwell, the education committee is to spend time and energy looking at commitment. That is an opportunity across the chamber for all parties to look at the issue that we have been looking at today. However, good attainment at schools is not only directly linked to the opportunities available to young people when they leave school, but to the well-being and the quality of life in the future. As others have said, there has been an increase in the number of school leavers entering positive destinations. Remaining those in the last few years is very very welcome. The increase in those entering employment, which was a positive destination, has also increased in the last two years. I would say that is in no small part due to the UK's policy in the strong recovery from the recession. The UK has had the biggest growth of employment within the G7. The Scottish economy grew by almost 1 per cent. Unemployment has increased from 73 to 73.9 in the second quarter of this year, and young people's unemployment is now at a six-year low. The link between a strong economy and providing opportunities cannot be disputed. One of the main things that we should look at today is that children in work-less households in Scotland have fallen again and are now lower than the rest of the United Kingdom—in fact, down 38,000 in the past year. Given that I have one minute left, I will just move over. I just wanted to say something consensual to finish today, although I appreciate that there has been a fair degree of consensus over this issue from some people. The one issue that we can all agree with is Ian Wood's commission for developing Scotland's young workforce. I think that it is possibly the most exciting initiative in training and education that I have seen in decades. The focus on preparation for work in schools, the option for vocational education, the reduction of snobbery by everyone has to go to university and respecting people for whatever job they do is absolutely first class. We all recognise the brilliant work that is done by teachers in school and childcare staff. I hope that we can all agree that every child in Scotland deserves an equal chance in life and that improvements can be made in reducing the attainment gap, if we all work together not only on the education committee but across this chamber. Thank you. That concludes the debate on addressing the attainment gap in the Scottish schools. The next item of business is consideration of business motion 11318, in the name of Joe Fitzpatrick, or on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, setting out a business programme. Any member who wishes to speak against the motion should press a request-to-speak button now, and I call on Joe Fitzpatrick to move motion number 11318. No member has asked to speak against the motion, therefore I now put the question to the chamber. The question is that motion number 11318, in the name of Joe Fitzpatrick, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed to. The next item of business is consideration of five parliamentary bureau motions. I would ask Joe Fitzpatrick to move motion number 11334 on amendment to the name, remit and duration of a committee, and motion number 11319, 11320, 11322 and 11323 on approval of SNSI's on block. The question is on these motions, we have put decision time to which we now come. There are five questions to be put as a result of today's business. Can I remind members that, in relation to today's debate, if the amendment in the name of Michael Russell is agreed to, the amendment in the name of Neil Bibby falls? The question then is amendment number 11304.3, in the name of Michael Russell, which seeks to amend motion number 11304, in the name of Liz Smith, on addressing the attainment gap in Scottish schools, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed. We move to vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment number 11304.3, in the name of Michael Russell, is as follows. Yes, 94, no, 18. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore agreed to and the amendment in the name of Neil Bibby falls. The next question is on motion number 11304, in the name of Liz Smith, as amended, on addressing the attainment gap in Scottish schools, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed. We move to vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on motion number 11304, in the name of Liz Smith, as amended, is as follows. Yes, 94, no, 18. There were no abstentions. The motion, as amended, is therefore agreed to. The next question is on motion number 11304, in the name of Jofix-Patrick, on amendments to the name, remit and duration of a committee, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is agreed. The motion is therefore agreed to. I propose to ask a single question on motion numbers 11319, 11320, 11322 and 11323 on approval of SSIs. If any member objects to a single question being put, please say so now. Nobody objects. The next question is on motion number 11319, 11320, 11322 and 11323, in the name of Jofix-Patrick, on approval of SSIs, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The motions are therefore agreed to. That ends decision time. Can I just remind members that the reception for Poppy Scotland is in the main hall at 6 o'clock this evening? We now move to members' business. Members who are leaving the chamber should do so quickly and quietly.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the final words, Crystal Palace nil, Everton nil, this video is brought to you by One Football, One Football's app makes it easier to find all the latest news, start and scores in one place to download the One Football app, click the link in the description, we are joined by Dave, newly married Dave, congratulations Dave. I'm showing it to the whole Beyonce. She loves it. If you like it, put a ring on it and it did. Both did. So the both must like it. That's it. There you go. Let's move on. We digress. That's what we do. It's nil nil, we've got quite a long time to fill. If you like pet of the rings there, all of us are giving it the three, giving it the bit of Beyonce. There you go. Carry on. Thanks very much. Yeah, nil nil, Palace wasn't the most awe-inspiring game of football I've ever been to, but now. But the positives were we went down there and for the away game, we controlled it, we never looked faced, we were always the better team. They didn't do anything apart from something like the first minute or two minutes. And apart from that, it was a good performance, that's all I can say, but we just couldn't finish it off. Yeah, we were very, very good in terms of controlling the way the game went and creating opportunities, albeit not fantastic ones, but we did. And it was the way we passed the ball around, I was saying, to Dave off camera before it looked like. You've seen so many of the better clubs and the Premier League, the top clubs play when they go away from home. It was that kind of performance where they're always on the ball and they're looking to do something. We restrict the Palace to nothing, really. They're a funny team because when you think of Palace, you think good home record, but they've been shocking at home. I've been better away and you think with playing, we've been playing quite a high line, although not as high lately, which just means you've got more clean sheets, but you think, well, they play bats, right? But they played Bentech, which those have played into our hands and then they just played a very, very deep, as deep as you could possibly get without being behind the keeper, which obviously restricted us, didn't it? We said this on the preview last week. I'd seen a few Crystal Palace fans tweeting and stuff about Hodgson and not let. Just like, you know, I suppose there's similar criticisms that we had at Allardykes last season, but we're safe now. So why aren't you just letting the team off the leash? You just have a go. They've got the likes of Sahar, they've got the likes of Bassish White, they've got Bentech. Maia. You know, yeah, Max Maia, who was a really good player then, Jane, who just doesn't quite find his feet this season. The full backs probably could get forward if he really wanted to. They've got that kind of pace. And yet on Saturday, they were so deep. And they sent her forward, positions were so deep. And you're right, we played on the halfway line and not once did they go right. We're just going to test one over the top and see if we can get Sahar in them. Very, very strange way of playing football when ultimately you've got nothing to play for. Do you think they were worried about us on the counter attack? Because of what we've done recently. So they like to unite them, what we did to Arsenal and West Ham, where they give us room to get in behind and destroy them. So do you think the game plan was sit as deep as we can and try not to lose this game? I don't know where the sort of court in between, right? We've got a bad home record, but we're safe. What do we do? And I think that has been the criticism for them. The only one thought too much about them on the Hodgson, but it's like, are we stick or bust? Ultimately, my oddest job is not to lose games. I think more than not to win games. I know that's a weird way to look at it, but it is, isn't it? It's not to lose games. But don't get me wrong, these tactics were pretty much spot on in terms of how to stop us from playing the way we want to play. And so you can only say, well, fair enough, you know, you did what you need to do. Maybe they thought a couple of set pieces, you know, their penalty record is like, what are you on now, 48 penalties?  Milhoedd. That's him, yes. He's got a weird name. He's got a tremendous record. They probably bank on and listen to how the number one winner of penalties he must be on 8th because he's always on his own. No, shallers on it, shallers outdived in the shade to win. So, from that point of view at all, they had their tactics spot on and they've got, when you look a palace, for me. No, they haven't.  No, they haven't got good players. They've got three good players. Come on, Dave, come on. They're attacking players. But I would say a better than Llyr Bolmouth. I would. People go on about it. I would, mate, honestly. People go on about it. Callum Wilson's got a good goal. The abuse of Barocas. Mate, you're telling me that Draha Batswai bentecher Max Maia aren't as good as the likes of Bolmouth in the final third. I think what lets them down is the fact that, like you said before, the playing on the least, they won four home games out of 18. That's knackered them. They've got the sixth of their fifth best away record in the Premier League. Cus Hodgshin's more of a pragmatic coach. Where's Howell Gellar? How's Expansive? I think about the awad. Then, as he's attacking players, the owners will be on. And Van Arnault and Van Besachar. They would have five men flying forward. What's the point difference between the two of them? It can't be. It's not that one. And that's the irony, isn't it? Is that one's ultra-defensive, one's ultra-attacking, and they've got very similar points. And they're probably a place between them. And that's where quality almost levels itself out in the Premier League. Cus they've got players that are big on the palace. They're always a big side. You look at them and go, it's going to be a physical game. Cus they all seem to be massive in that side, don't they? All of them. And so you look at them and go, well, you know, I was looking at Shatney and think, well, we've got to play round them. But there was very little space to play round them. When there's no room in behind, we couldn't get the in and Van Ard link it up as well as we have. I just haven't got enough clever players, have we? Really, just to unlock that. You know, that's something a bit different. Do you think we missed God? I mean, I thought Sniadlan had a very good game, Shatney, for what he did. But do you think if we would have had hands like Gomez, usually a little bit more forward thinking that might have helped the next set? Potentially, but I just think, I think our problem, and this is not just this season, but for the last 10, 15, 20 years, is we've had a Gomez, or we've had an Artheta, Pina, but then we've had no one to come off the bench to do that as well, to carry it on. You know, when it wasn't quite happening for Barney, he was getting no change out of Wambasacka. Recharlasyn clearly wasn't fit. Luckman, you know, sort of, jogged on and looked half bothered. You know, it's beyond the first 13 players. That's going to be the jump. That's why it's coming onto the summer now. This, where we are now, replicates Cumans first season, that started when we beat City and went on for that second half season, where we just cleaned up, beat a lot of teams, and then we just messed the summer up. This summer we've got to get them two players for position, haven't we? I mean, we had a chance right at the very start. I mean, we were both over the top and I think it was Kelly swung a leg at it, missed it and all of a sudden, donzing on going, you must have thought from where you're standing, this one, this. Cos it looked like it was in the box and I thought, just like you've scored. You never had it under control. His face touch almost took it away from him and then he's coming back and he never had it under control and he ends up getting, having to almost get a shot off quickly and it was weak. Where his that face touch almost, not a little under the stud to get it in front of you and then you just pick your spot cos you've got a couple of yards and he just doesn't have that composure. I suppose it's what we've been speaking about in the last few weeks. He's great at home. He's great at bringing other players into the game but he's not that player. He's yet that you'll go if you'll ever want to the ball to fall to anybody. And that's the problem and listen, we're not... I don't think anyone's hiding that fact. It's just that it is what it is and I think when people say we need to buy a centre forward it's the most important position. It's for games like this, it's games like full. It's when you might only get one or two chances and the irony is we only seem to get one or two chances against teams like Fulham and Palace and whoever else rather than when it's an open, expansive game but you need someone to finish it off and it's funny cos a couple of years ago when we were coming to the end of that first season under Cooman, it was, well we had Ron and nothing else worked and now almost it feels like at the moment everything else has started to click into place and if we had a Ron someone who you just could rely on then we'd be flying wouldn't we? We really would, we wouldn't you look at it seems like less than you look at Vardy and you think 18 Premier League goals he's got this season you know, if we had someone like that and I know we've got players who are in double figures but just someone that you can bank on to score or just someone that he's got that many he's got he's caught up then cos he had first after season, he had about five under Rodgers he's really kicked on Rodgers has just put the arm around and done the whole best let's have a press-up competition you can do a better picture a bigger picture it was Bench press wasn't it? but it's even things like a self-portrait and if you're looking for anyone, there's people we know we could probably do a good self-portrait there is, absolutely but I think with someone like Vardy and I've seen a goal he scored yesterday it's that idea of like, you know it's the third one you square that where last week woke up to like, I'm not squaring to Dom now that's probably because he just wants to go on himself but it's that idea of someone like Vardy you trust him, five yards out he's going to score, Vardy's going to score you know, both of his goals were good If he'd have had that chance Dom had 1-0 isn't he? Oh it's 1-0 early on, on Saturday he's done it against us just one chance it was in the net and it's over and what that would have done to the game was he had to come out and then we would have been able to pick them off but because we've and listen, Domin again I've said before to Dave that the improvements in his games being unbelievable in the last few months, he's sent us being ridiculous he's gone from being someone who I was like, I'm not sure I'm not sure to being I tell you what, he's a player now it's just that probably what will be the difference with Domin a Calvert-Lewin is that that goals because everything else I think everything else is excellent To me it's like it's like saying Garnett and going, well look how well Garnett has been playing in the last three months and then saying well what I want Garnett to do now is to start spraying the ball like 30 I cross field passes it's almost that level that you've got to go up at scoring goals is ridiculously hard at the highest level that's why he's sent us forwards are so expensive and for me that's what I feel like I feel like he's all round game but no one says to Garnett you've been brilliant with Domin you do with Domin some people go shell Garnett because he can do that those people are fucking idiots simple as that you look at Domin, that's the thing he's got he's gained going up to that level but to get to that next level you can't can you you take the two freaks out Messi Ronaldo can you name me who's got 20 league goals in the last five years consistently Aguero Aguero, Lewandalski you're struggling after that aren't you shallow probably Bill because he looks like you no we only last two years didn't do it for Roma he got 20 and 50 didn't he but I suppose from different areas but I know what you're saying it is hard to but actually Vadi's actually a good barometer because if you look at Vadi's first year in the Premier League he wasn't very consistent he scored penalties and when they won the league it all just clicked into place and that confidence of knowing almost like knowing you can score goals he also had ochas rach i he had ochas rach i and he had a shower as well so we had other options so we almost that's a racist game because they were a good partnership the other two and it was like well I've got to play I want to play and he's been the character Vadi is it's not Truncelon's day so the character he is and work and work and work because that's what's in him and that's what Dom has to do what I would say as well Lois about Vadi we just compared in the two places Vadi gets probably 3 or 4 maybe 5 more chances a game Dom doesn't get hardly any chances I think this is our problem he got none last week and we went 4-0 and he's our centre fo and he didn't get one chance really in the whole game but he can help that as well of course he can but at the moment his role isn't even to score goals but when the opportunities arise like for him on Saturday he's got to be ready and he's just not quite there yet so this is what I'm saying about our chance creation oh yeah it's not there is it how many times do we create one on ones that you see Cain and Vadi get every week we don't do we it's very hard for us to score goals we almost try and walk it in who do we put that down to Dave because we haven't I think we're averaging 18 a temporary goal again or something like that over the last whatever so quite clearly we're having a lot more shots than we have done in the past so we're expansive in that way we can see that we have 23 a temporary goal against United 23 against Arsenal you know 8-19 against Chelsea whatever but the chances you're talking about is it Sigarton is it Dom not making the right role is it a wide play it's a combination isn't it like we've mixed it up with the throw-ins it's a good effect in recent games but the open play we're just a time if you don't move a quick enough I think so that is down to Sigarton that is down to one of the wide players having an off day picking the wrong pass not having them options I still don't think the movement is good enough and then there's them options off the bench to come in and mix it up you know watching Saturday it didn't feel as fluent as when we play at home it felt a lot more mechanical like a lot more like you could see the patterns of play from the training field and it is that thing of but isn't that good no no what I was going to say is it takes time doesn't it for that to become not a a mechanical thing but a natural thing to look at you look at City the best of the best and you watch the way they play and that's all training ground routines isn't it it's all training ground because otherwise Pep wouldn't be the coach he is you know the very best coach but you can play like that and I haven't played like that for years but it's at that tempo you're talking about but it's just slow and everyone can get behind but City do it so fast that it almost looks off the cuff but it's not, it's worked on day and night by coaches doing you know routines and not only that but you've seen that in the Man City documentary all the classroom stuff and it's when it transitions from being looking mechanical to seeing almost seeing that all the moving parts it being fluid and that's going to take a while but it's also going to take you know hand on hand it's going to take better players as well I think you know going back to what you said before I think Gomez was a miss in this game I think we could have coped without someone like Snyden and had someone who could go both ways on Saturday and that is, that's the squad again Dave that's the squad and being able to say well in this game when we went to Cardiff on that night we were like well it's Snyden that's playing alright that's fine we've got a little bit of protection and everyone else can almost go forward then same with last week but I think on Saturday that was a game where you looked at it and people can say well Gomez has only scored one goal and he hasn't got many assists but if he moves the ball faster if he sees things faster then we get him round the back faster exactly and it takes pressure off it's in as well and we just move the ball a little bit faster and have better angles and I think we just need a few more of those plays and I thought the start on 11 was really telling on Saturday you know we were going down there on the coach and people were saying well Wolcott hasn't travelled and Rich Arlton's got this injury and it ends up being the same 11 and you watch Rich Arlton at the whole game he's practically playing with his hand on his why is he playing now? because the manager clearly doesn't trust other people he must have said though I'm fit no but you could see what I'm fit you've got to take the decision out of the players' hands because players are going to be coming in on crutches saying they're fit just dose me up you've got to take it out of their hands and it is like saying it's a trust issue the manager hasn't got them 20-25 players who he completely believes in so in that case then because I don't think you've been on for a while until there was getting a little bit of a kick in between I know on Twitter that you've been supportive of many ways but as he's done people will disagree with me here but that's fine as he's done almost better than what possibly could have been expected given we've literally had six new players into the squad so he's come in what I mean is you've took over everything you walk into a dressing room and go there's not many players who can do what I need us to do and he's almost got us now to the fact that we're talking about a game where we've gone away we've dominated the game we've passed it around it wasn't as fluent but we're seeing fluidity at home when you sit down and you see the others you know that we're going to probably dominate the game we're going to create chances because we moved the ball quickly but trying that away from our West Ham was the best we've played because we moved it quick and they couldn't live with us Saturday was similar to West Ham it was just a little bit more open than them it caused us more problems but as he's done really well given that he's probably only got 13 players like you said before do you think he's done I think he has because I think who's playing well now or has played well since the 10 of the year so Bernie's being the star haven't played a game since March was carrying an injury no pre-season Gomez no pre-season with Charleston half a pre-season so in now meanest being in and out struggle Zuma may have played in America with Chelsea it was a last man thing Pickford had a week a week off after a well cut so no centre forward and we haven't had this so suppose without going overboard on Silver because we shouldn't I think he's done well this season I think but I think what you said before the summer is the big factor isn't it because we do have to there's a couple of key areas and Saturday highlighted it better than I think this season I've said this a couple of times was always going to be a free hit because last season was such a mess and a write off in the heart and we've got to unpick that because the wage bill is so inflated and we've got players that we don't want players are unhappy you know and stuff we just a lot of non-burners if you like so it was what can you do and brands and Silver did the job what they needed to do then it was down to all that coaching and like he said in an interview was that it was with the Guardian but I was they've had to learn a whole different way of playing on me because no one's own on marks you go down to any pitch this weekend no one will be zone of marking it's something you have to learn and look at where we are now so it's just and that strike a why there's been tangible improvements anyway the way we play I think back 12 months you were going to Godderson like that the game of the weekend we were like just get this season done really get it done because I can't terrible we've had 22 attempts at goal last year we've had an 8 7 you might win a game 1-0 haven't we got the second highest possession warning opposition off we did have in December we were number 1 so there are there about certainly in the top 3 or 4 teams in the league 4th best clean sheet in the Premier League so there's been real progress given he's had one transfer window we threw January away because the manager doesn't really like it the manager's always one place always the director of football doesn't say it unless it's an essential which is fine, no issue with that but I thought it was really interesting Silver doing an interview and saying he expects Michelle he's basically told him he's going to put his hand in his pocket again this summer and there's no problem with it I thought that was quite interesting that he's come out already and said it he's not going to be in a sheet but being worried about the esk I think he was worried about the esk the esk was not happy with it but in this game I'm just going to say brands has been working all year to make sure we get people in in the summer that's his job if he was no money then his job would be pointless we're not coming into that we're not waiting for the season stop picking up the phone and see what we can get you would think that four are done and at least two or three are there or there about between 70 and 90% what you want is you want hopefully is almost like when they do it where it's just like the night before you get the 10 at half 10 the half 10 twist the half 10 treat from Paul Joyce but Bernie was like that one but that's what they like isn't it they hope to tie up a deal with someone and you go whoa where did that come from and the amount of time they've seen that or the other way is where they want somebody and it almost goes on for a while but there's like never ever any doubt that the patience is coming and remember when they were trying to get like Alex in the season and Salady before it was like all season there was no panic it was just in the summer it was like no he's coming we're just having to everything's tied up and it might be a case of a couple of little things here and there but that's what we'll do these are the games aren't the way we need that extra little bit of class like you were saying before it's fine when teams come to you during the top six and they're open and they want to play almost then it's like it's almost like a fair fight in a way that'll sound silly but both teams want to play football it's just who's better on the day in the last few weeks at home we've been better on the day when teams don't want to play football it's finding a way to beat them and to be fair on Saturday I thought we'd found a way to beat them because Coleman was getting in all the time they just realised Wamba Sacher was giving nothing up he was fantastic he really was he didn't do anything amazing he's just one of those kids who knows exactly when to intercept the ball I thought he was brilliant and he really did stop on Dean and he was that deep anyway but on the other side we had that sorted Coleman was in every single time but he was so wasteful but not only was he wasteful but we should have almost had players in different zones in the box and a bit of movement would have undone them and it wasn't enough it was too static Coleman would get in the box he'd look up knocked one out and he put one over the top but it was where was the variation where was someone basing a gut maybe that's where Gomez would have been off a little bit more that's Nidlans 20 yards back there and he was that extra player maybe just to catch one on the edge of the box or Sigarton someone doing a decoy run so Sigarton could do that little run that he likes doing to get on to it there just wasn't enough variation for me when it's going well that variation's there when Theo runs through he can either square it he was never going to square it but the options there when it's a grind it's almost like there's got to be a hand come out of the sky and there's got to be the beauty of people we are that static we see it from throw-ins especially we just bug big bug bit of mine now it's like a small thing but it's them a little bit of differences they're all of a sudden two passes and you're in we've seen it the other week a different scale but De Bruyna one pass that little bit of quality by the just that move but you're absolutely right though to look at those fine details some people will agree some people will be like well what about it but the fine details, the fine games and the best teams are great people got a throwing coach because they were giving the ball and now we were laughing but apparently they're starting now for keeping the ball off throwing is like 85% where it was 20 or something at the start of the season we've done a bit of long throw all of a sudden that's become a weapon now no one knew anything about it until four weeks ago then all of a sudden it's like I don't know well yeah, well there you go but I think there was one on Saturday before half-time in Retiala's and got in and Dom he checks his run instead of just gambling and if he runs and he just makes the run I've shown Dave he runs stop because I've run the three times so have a look at it and by the time Retiala's is put it in Retiala's is fuming with him because if he carried on his run he's got a little head and it's 1-0 and it's little things like that that Dom's just got to go I'm gambling it don't care if he runs offside and heads it in you go alright that's a margin that's a fine margin you've been do that run again because if you keep doing that one time you'll get it perfect and we're winning that's what Harry King does he runs in and puts it in if he's offside or a guard off the offside he'll do it again and he'll do it again and it's like you say Rachim Staling will run he'll run he might be offside five times on the game but on the sixth one he's in and he scores and it's that little thing that we don't do it's almost like it's like when it's nil we defend like the greatest team in your but we let it go in it seems like our heads go a little bit and we're a bit shaky that's what happened to Fulham we let one in we should have gone like settle this down because these aren't great we didn't Jack Elker starts making runs and leaving gaps and then it's 2-0 but going back to what you just said there though if the quality of the crosses isn't coming in like in the second half if Seamus Coleman puts five crosses in all to the same place at least then don't lose if he keeps making that run but Seamus's crossing was like one goes out one goes over one it was like every single one there's no consistency like you just said there Kevin De Bruin if Kevin De Bruin you know every time imagine Staling every time Staling must just go if I go here he'll find me eventually Kevin De Bruin's got that much quality and that's what we lack as a football team that quality so that one person goes well I'll gamble because eventually he will get me the ball and we just I think that again that's just something we lack because Seamus is just things to wear Gary Neville points it out every week about the two inside forwards for City, Staling making them runs and just tapping it in and it's like if Coleman knows to put that just hit you know going football managing hit low crosses it is that because someone's going to be there but because it's so varied well does Dom know to check does he know to gamble I've always him though I'd go into that zone all the time because you are going to get a chance checking the amount of time we put the face of that goal he's got a tapping whereas if you keep checking back to the penalty spot they're having to dink it back and then what you're going to do is stand in there if he runs in behind it he's more likely to get a tapping or a stupid header and he'll score goals that way but again that's training but he might do that should be where Guilfee is Dom should go one and Guilfee should be at the penalty spot likely seeing a Cardiff Dom makes a run and Guilfee just drops off and as he comes back he strokes to them a win a wonder or even Dom runs front because he never seems to be in there and he should be there as well but that should be that's the city thing isn't it every time there's always someone at the back post he's there and scored nearly 20 on goals this season not finishing he's just laying Dom could take a lot from that you're right it's time out of a 0-0 we did well let us know your thoughts in the comments on this game are you happy that we're getting more consistency and we're playing better let us know or are you disappointed that we never won it anything that we've mentioned big thanks for Dave for coming in he's on his honeymoon this is my honeymoon Everton my first cut this bit off this might need to stunt patron we'll never go home don't put this anywhere it's a missus can see it the mallie now she will come to us like whatever do you have it? we'll see you later


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