What does it mean that all our desires and all our wants are taken care of? I don't know what I'm going to want There is no base level for my desires and wants What does it mean when people say all their needs are taken care of? What are your needs? I need more stuff every year I need different things in a year. I Need to discover the things that I want and the things that I need. I don't settle The robot are making food of X quality. I want X plus one. I can't remember, but isn't it true that in Star Trek some people had like Space yachts private space yachts. Why not? Can everybody get one is it truly costless There's the raw material costless is a electricity costless But there's no end to human desires humans wants human needs There's no end to the potential of progress to supply those But where does the progress come from if not From somebody's mind somebody coming up with an idea of a new type of soap With a new kind of scent. I don't know new kind of food so We don't just desire To have the standard of living that we have the quality of life that we have We don't just I mean this fully automated luxury communism is set in you know everybody would go on vacation at the lake and everybody would do but What if somebody wants to go to Mars?  Well, somebody's gonna have to make massive investments in going to Mars. How? Who? What's incentive how they're gonna get engineers to come and work in their project rather than other projects So the whole conception here is That values are static That values are given and That values are known From the top down There is an authoritarian a robot a computer That knows what you need what you want what you desire what your values are and it provides them to you, but what if my values change and To what extent are my values as meaningful if no effort is required to attain them They just show up. What about the value of work? The value of work not only because it can be enjoyable because it's a challenge because that's where we get our self esteem now theoretically could took your hobby into that, but how do you know you're any good isn't The price system another way in telling you you are successful you are good at what you do You are producing values real values to other people. It's a It rejects where values come from from your mind your your choices Your life it rejects the idea that values are constantly Changing growing becoming more ambitious And it rejects the whole way in which production happens, which is somebody has an idea and Has to muster the resources to make that idea reality Robots don't have ideas Unless they become human and then the human not robots, so they're conscious not robots See, yes, I think we will achieve a date where all of our basic material needs all of our Manual labor Will be achieved easily cheaply dirt cheaply by robots think about this. I Think I did did this exercise before but imagine We could grow the economy at 5% a year for the next 40 years And imagine you own I don't know let's say $10 an hour today. So you're at the bottom, right? You're struggling $10 an hour and assume which I think is justifiable to assume That your wages are tied To the growth rate in our economy Then at $10 an hour in 40 years you would earn in real terms assume the 5% growth is real you would earn 72 I think dollars an hour $10 turns into 72 dollars an hour now with 72 dollars an hour you can live pretty well 72 dollars an hour is a pretty good wage and we're talking about The poorest people in our society making 72 bucks an hour in real terms If that happens There is no poverty if that happens Everybody gets their basic needs taking care of more than their basic needs more than their basic needs, but of course The only way that can happen is if we embrace capitalism the only way that can happen Is if we keep money if we price things if we use the price system if we have free markets Then we get to the point where there are no poor people by any standard and where we Middle-class are all millionaires very young and can do whatever we want including working less if that's what we want to do so it's very quickly You can see that the real solution To attaining this kind of lifestyle where you work a little and you play a lot if that's what you want is Then based capitalism. It's the only way Because indeed if you take all the wealth in the world today and you divide it among all the people on planet earth today It doesn't raise the standard of living that much for very long and You take away the incentive to create much more wealth communism only leads in one direction Communism only leads to more poverty Communism only leads to more destruction Communism only leads even if it's Utopian even if it has no dictator even if it's But it has to have a dick dick is somebody has to put those evil capitalist in jail It only leads to death destruction and starvation. It does not lead to luxury luxury is a feature of only a feature of capitalism there is no such thing Is luxury communism luxury communism is completely unequivocally a contradiction in terms Communism cannot produce luxury It will never produce luxury the robots would break down Nobody will be available to fix them. Nobody will know how to fix them. Nobody would have studied how to fix them Everybody will be doing their thing and civilization will collapse wealth Will collapse until they rediscover capitalism I mean It's not that hard It's not that hard. All right. All right, so um One more point I want to make about this just to link it to something. I've told you about many many times This idea really comes out of Judaism and Christianity This really is the idea of The Garden of Eden It's the Garden of Eden mythology. It's the Garden of Eden That is conditioned people to think in this way or the Garden of Eden is a projection of people's desires The desire to get the unowned The desire to live a life without effort the desire to Just be at the beach do whatever your whims desire without the need To produce the things that are required for your life In the Garden of Eden all food is produced is just there No effort no work is required. No struggle the Garden of Eden Requires nothing a man indeed The Garden of Eden is man as animal is Man with no reason is man with no will is Man with no choices What everybody wants is to reverse the fall of Adam and Eve to return What with these guys one not everybody to return to some garden mythological Garden of Eden Eden where they don't need to use their mind in other words They don't need to be human what they want to do is become animals What they want to do is become beasts of the land with no free will No choice No effort no work numb dead and of course in the Garden of Eden you live forever Boring as life might be and this is a pervasive mythology and Super destructive of course, it's not just the Garden of Eden.  It's a world with no money It's a world with no effort.  Nothing It's a world where you return to being an animal and it seems like Christianity hit a home run With taking the Garden of Eden and projecting it into the future projecting into the afterlife It's very appealing in Christian mythology. It's very appealing to people and it's You see it circled back you see it recycled if you will by the communists What is the fully automated luxury communism if not? garden of Eden or paradise But a false Garden of Eden and a false paradise Remember that Eve has to bite from the apple of knowledge The apple of knowledge is what gives Adam and Eve human consciousness The apple of knowledge gives Adam and Eve reason free will Choices it makes them human and that is viewed as a fall That is viewed as a bad thing That is viewed as something we need to overcome With communism all right So yeah, it's it's it's also you know something that It's again to link this to kind of a floating platonic wishful thinking People imagine a world that's completely unrealistic and unattainable It goes back to those platonic roots that we've talked about over and over again during these episodes Our job the way to combat this It's to recognize that life is amazing that life is not a burden as Jordan Peterson would tell us but life is Amazing particularly in a modern world embrace Your will embrace your reason embrace your work embrace your life live the antidote to Luxury communism is to say no I Want to work I want to produce and I want to trade with my fellow man. I want better Better and better and better all the time my wants are not constrained. They're not Limited we need a positive vision of the fall Becoming human Makes happiness possible Make self-esteem possible Make success possible Makes interesting stimulating Challenging stuff possible makes pleasure possible. We'll talk about pleasure tomorrow In the Iran rules for life, so we'll do that tomorrow Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching Show your appreciation. 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Stensively, upgraded and revived, frames, dashes, and bodywork are well done. After a successful first decade, focused on building the brand, Shurko starts working on conquering the world of racing. In 2010, the brand achieves one of its most important landmarks, with David Castot winning both the World Rally Championship and the first stage of the Dakar Rally with the Shurko SR 4.5i. It was the first time that Shurko was participating in the Dakar Rally. The Shurko TVS rally team, as we know it, is born in 2015 and makes its first appearance in the Dakar Rally, with Fabian Planet on the helm. We set up a team together, we had already a structure of a team, and with the input of TVS it helps us a lot. And we have engine rider, we have engine mechanic, also at the factory during the during the season, and the collaborator for R&D. We are speaking for the R&D because us we are doing competition products that they give us experience regarding mass production and mass production testing. How they proceed and all, so it's a real collaboration together. The difficulty with the rally is you need to have a performance but the reliability. The performance it's really easy to have, but the performance with reliability is not easy. And this is the target every year. It's a compromise between performance and reliability. It's the same in Andrew, it's the same in Treal. The story and the idea is to set up a team with an organization that can potentially win in the future. After is to create a product that is competitive with the others and to have a rider that can win the Dakar. In 2016, Shurko officially joins the Big Boys Enduro Club. 14 years after the release of its first Enduro bike, Shurko wins the first Enduro GP title and the E2 Enduro World title, with Matthew Phillips on the helm of the Shurko 300 SEF factory. In the next year, Shurko is expanding even more near production capabilities. They went from a 3,500 square meter plant to a 12,000 square meter plant. Shurko is growing at a blistering pace and the reason behind this growth is quite simple. Basically, we have two activities. We have one activity of real estate and we have Shurko. So we are in two markets, but the real estate was just to assure that we have an economic stability, but after it's quite easy. We reinvest in the company all the profits that we can have. It's quite easy. If you want to make a very big project like this, you have two choices. Or you want to make money with it. Or you want to have a fast growth. If you don't take money from the company and you make a good choice, you grow very fast. On the decision, we are alone in the company. There is no shareholder. Why? It's just for one reason. It's to be very fast when we make decisions. You can take major decisions in two days, if needed. Yeah, we speak the morning in my favor. In 30 minutes, we can take one decision. It's very fast. And this, when you have other partners, it's a little bit more complicated. This is clear. This is why we want to stay alone. We have a good stability with our real estate activity that is quite big of construction, renting and all. But it's not only an item of money. You need to have the people. And the people is more important than the cash. You need to have the people that want to do the best. If you want to do the best, this has no value. It's super powerful. Someone that wants, that have a wish to do something. That's it. We want to build and all the team here, but the team in Spain or the team in France, they want to create a nice story. And all people joined for that reason. Everyone has the same goal. Yeah, we have the same goal. Is to make a nice product and make a nice company. Following this philosophy about valuing people, in 2018, Sherco decided to truly invest in its riders for Xtreme Enduro. The new kid on the block, Wade Young, had already conquered some podiums under the Sherco brand. While a former Sqvarna factory rider, Mario Roman, was in every rider's worst scenario, without a bike for next season. The first reason of why we are in Xtreme Enduro, it's opportunity. Opportunity. We had a good partner in South Africa. He introduced us to Wade Young. We were checking the possibility to go into Xtreme Enduro and speaking with other riders. And finally, Mia was not aware about who is Wade Young. And we checked the list. But this year is the better result on the big events than the rider that we are speaking with. We must discuss with him. And finally, he has done one season like that. And after Mario Jonas, with his great ability for communication, it's finally we arrived to have the team with one technical guy and one strong and fast guy. Both are strong and fast and technical, but it's just that some have more ability in some terrain. Knowing that there was great potential on both athletes, the company created the Sherco factory team, which summed five wins in some of the biggest hard Enduro races in the world. In 2019, 22nd decade on a high note, Kiwi rider Hamish McDonald clinches the Youth Enduro World title on the Sherco Racing 125cc. This was the third Enduro World title for the French manufacturer. Later that year, Cas Cas was on the edge of bankruptcy. Sherco was among the companies that were interested in getting the Spanish company out of that pit. Basically, it's to take a bigger part of the market share in a short operation. So just that, just to increase the network, the market share. For sure, there's a bit of network, but when you make an integration of a competitor, you make more units immediately. Oh, so your goal was to take advantage of their factory as well to increase the... We like to do something quite easy. I cannot go in detail with that. I cannot go in detail where the plan was to produce which or which bike. The only fact is, Cas Cas, it's a brand that have done good job at one moment. And recently, some mistakes to comment if there are good, bad, whatever the situation where they had to be to be purchased by one or another is because they had a problem. I think the brand name is appreciated by the people. I think it's not as it was five or ten years ago. This is a fact. Us, we are more premium brands. Maybe it was a good combination. It was not possible to do. Us, it's quite easy. We want to do something well organized that makes sense. If it go inside this case, we do. We take action about what we need, not what we want. It's really important that if you want to reduce the number of mistakes in life, is what you need and not what you want. The business didn't get through, but other challenges were arising on the brand's horizon. 2019 was also the year that Shurko focused its attention in one of the biggest markets in the world, the United States. Stay tuned to know more about this new chapter in Shurko's adventure.


wo colors, like you know the first and second floor one and just to make it look less big. I think smaller windows, not only would make it look less like the same and giant but actually be nicer for the tenants that they could actually have the windows open and not their entire body scene but I also think if they were smaller it would be kind of more interesting to me and be more fitting into the style of local windows. Steve Schreiber had suggested for North Square that it was actually really big for the area and then putting the top floor into kind of a roof and so that that would sort of make it look in kind of, you know, whatever. So that's, I'm thinking about that idea. And I just think that, you know, the building is kind of boxy and overwhelming. And from the sides it just looks like just, you know, it doesn't look like a New England town, but to also make me wonder about, I know you really like the cedar siding and what if it was sideways so it kind of references clabbered more like something to make it look fit not to fit in with its surroundings and stuff to kind of bring it down to a scale. So if you're in the Kender Park, you know, just looking up at these giant facades, and then you're looking at, you know, these beautiful buildings, you know, old colonial buildings, there has to be some way to integrate that and so I think the Design Review Board will be talking about stuff like that but I didn't want to spring it as a surprise in three weeks or something but there's, I mean, it's a general feeling amongst many people that these buildings just kind of pop out and they're too big. I know this building is smaller. But, you know, it didn't, you know, I, how do you make it smaller or feel smaller. For someone standing on the street or looking across the street. We're actually looking at it from the graveyard, like, I took my friends to the graveyard after we went to the Emily Dickens Museum, my Boston friends, and we just turned around and looked at, you know, when he's pleasant and our mouths kind of dropped open and I think that is part of the thing it's just it's just a lot of building, and it's really big and it looks, you know, it's everything about it is big and the same so and I know I'm not an architect and whatever but I'm just, I'm just getting in there and saying what I hear and some of the things I've kind of picked up looking around at other buildings, so thank you. Jana, that's very impressive for not being an architect, I have to say. Just drive around around looking at buildings, I have pictures. Yeah. Maria please. You know, I got out the tricky thing it's very subjective. There's not really right and wrong. But as far as just thinking about as a planner, I'm not a planner but thinking of it in that way. Seeing the perspectives helps show that, you know what they're trying to continue as the street edge and the scale as far as density and massing and I think they've done a nice job of that. On both the street side as well as the long facades which is always a tricky thing to break up and they've done exactly that with the material changes and with the variations in the windows so. It's always misleading to look at exterior elevations to their very abstract they flattened everything once you get a building and three dimensions of shadows and see sort of what is pushing and pulling as far as the facade. It's a completely different look so these long flat elevations always make buildings look very stark so the three dimensional images really help and what was my point. Let's see. Oh, so as far as recommendations. Yes, yeah, make sure that cedar. I think you cry on one of the earlier meetings mentioned something about a different wood species and staying that you're trying out so that's something that would be great because your detail shot shows really lovely siding that would be great to keep. And I appreciate that you didn't just build another brick and stucco. You know this is a different material and but it keeps the same streetscape so. I personally, I'm excited to see it in reality and. I thought I had a more specific point by forgetting it now so but anyways that I think we just wanted to weigh in. Oh, that I remember now. I don't think that we should be encroaching any more on setbacks because we're trying to, as many people said bring more housing downtown and the more we push and pull this building smaller. The more that's, you know, obviously going away so I think at this point, maybe talk more about streetscape about how it interacts with people at the human scale, but we just need as many units as we can get and. Yeah, increasing the setbacks is definitely not the direction to go in, in my opinion. So I think you were trying to do a scroll poll so that that's why I was chiming in with that. Yeah, I mean I, I'm thinking like, if people's bank wasn't there. You know what would that next property. You know look like would it, you know, probably at that, at that point at some point you kind of really want to do a lot of interesting things. Because, you know, you wouldn't want to study five story wall going from one from Kendrick place to one he's pleasant, but, but we need the housing, you know that they will be multi story building sort of thing but my understanding from what Maria said that this the facade again I'm not an archetype but it's significantly different and breaks things up quite a bit. So I'm just kind of deferring to the other experts here on the on the planning board in that respect. So, what do people think about in terms of you know giving them, giving them a punch list should we do, you know, a straw poll or do they have enough Kyle do you have enough that you can kind of get feedback from the design review board. Personally, I think it's, you know, keeping the cemetery fence where it is seems like a smart smart thing I wouldn't get nervous, going up there digging on the grave on the cemetery property their movement of fence and all that. And it seems like you can achieve the, you know what you need to do back there. If you put the trees on on the on the west end of the fence versus west side of the fence versus moving the fence but that's anybody have any strong feelings about that. Doug. Yeah, I guess I was, I was on board with the proposal that seemed to be the consensus with the developer and the historic commission. To take down the trees that are right on the property line and move the fence to the property line. So that it's, you know, so that the town can fully maintain its property and, and they don't have to access town property through the archipelago property. And I didn't think that was really something that we were revisiting but so I'm your comments surprised me. I'm just listening to Kyle, I mean it. I mean, I think anybody else have a feeling on that. If I can just say one other thing before I give up the floor. I heard Tom right, the design review board doesn't meet until July 19. And, and I think, isn't our next meeting on this before that. Not necessarily you haven't decided when your next meeting is. Okay. I was going to ask the same question. Please. We would have to set a, you know, a continuous. Look at the schedule. I'm going to put it in the cemetery side while Doug brought that question up. And we do not have a strong preference. If there was a preference here to move the fence and give Alan and the DBW more room to work on the west cemetery. That's fine. We think that there should be trees on our property line either way. I think that that's something that, you know, we're willing to plant, we're willing to maintain and pay for. So I think we should put those up on our side if Alan want we, we have no intention of planting any plants on the town's property. So if Alan wants to do that subsequent and create a second level that would be fine. And he would be able to do that if we did, if the fence was moved for our extent, basically from the Gaylord gate piece of granite that turns the corner all the way to the north end of the 11 East pleasant street property. So it is on the Jones property north of here and on the 15 East pleasant, but we can move it on the, on the property in question. Okay, so that doesn't really require for the discussion. So at this point, should we just, I think you have enough material. Kyle and Chris maybe you can help us kind of wrap up. I'm going to turn my notes and send, send something out, maybe tomorrow. Exactly what we talked about following. But I think we've got a pretty good idea of it. Do you want me to talk to you about dates potential dates. Yes, yes. So the planning board is meeting on July seven, and it's already got a full schedule on July seven. July 14 with this specific purpose of talking about zoning among itself. It's meeting on July 21 to talk with the CRC to hold public hearings on for zoning amendments. And the next meeting that is scheduled is August 4. Okay, I would recommend continuing this public hearing to August 4. Sounds appropriate. Janet. Well, Kyle first thing. I would, I would, I would request, if we could be on for July 14, I would greatly appreciate it. Skipping an entire month is very difficult if we're going to try to actually build this project. So, if we could get before the DRB, and get before the planning board for July 14, it would give us a chance. If we're going to be on August 4. You know, the reality is we're probably not going to get a signature until September. If we have a chance to try to dig a hole, it's, you know, there's there's real timing here.  So if we could, if we could be on the July 14 planning board meeting that would, we would greatly appreciate that. May I say something. Yeah, we got the design review board. So design review board on the 19th. Yeah. And the planning board really needs to talk about the zoning amendments before the public hearing. And that was something that, you know, people talked about in the beginning of this meeting. So I think the planning board does not want to give up that ability to talk about those zoning amendments on the 14th. They're, you know, Anyway, I think the 14th is going to be completely subsumed with talking about zoning amendments. These things go on forever. When we've talked to the CRC about them, and also talking to the planning board and passed about them. It just takes a long time. And we also get a lot of public comments. I believe on the 14th is really not reasonable on the 21st, as I said, we have four joint public hearings with the CRC. It's possible that the planning board could schedule another meeting between July 21 and August 4, which would be July 28. So the planning board could schedule a meeting for July 28 just for this project. If you all are willing to do that. Jack, I'm just looking. Yes, Janet. I can't understand for the life of me why we're going to have a formal statutory public hearing on for zoning amendments on July 21. When we haven't talked about two of them. And I don't know where that schedule came from and I don't know why. I'm just wondering about that after this. Yeah, so I would happily swap the July 21 for talking more about archipelago and moving that to a date when we actually have seen the bylaw amendments and made comments and worked on them or had some information about them. I mean, it's shocking. I'm simply shocked by the 21st. And I can't even imagine doing for zoning amendments that we've just talked about once before two of them once I didn't think we've talked about some of them. So I would happily meet do the archipelago on the 21st and figure out, you know, when the amendments are ready to go or what ones are and what our processes, I think that's in our hands. And at the CRC wants to hold a hearing they can but I don't, I don't even understand how we got here. Well, I think we got here because we've been talking about this. Since January, we've been talking about zoning amendments since January and this is a schedule that has worked out with the president of the town council and the chair of the CRC. And I am sorry that Jack feels like he wasn't on board with that schedule so that's my error in communication but I really feel like it would work to have the planning board meet on the 14th and discuss the zoning amendments and then have a public hearing on the 21st, you can always continue the public hearing if you don't reach a conclusion. It seems like this is the right schedule. Rob, Laura has been working with me on this and he may have some comments or suggestions to make about this but that would be my recommendation. Okay. Doug. I am comfortable with us talking as a board about these amendments for one meeting before we have the joint hearing and whether it's on the 14th or the 7th doesn't really matter to me. I guess what I was also going to ask was whatever the agenda is on the 7th. Could we flip that with, I mean, you know, could we talk about the zoning amendments on the 7th, talk about Archipelago's project on the 14th, and flip whatever's on the agenda for the 7th to August 4. That's all. Well, there's a practical consideration which is I'm going to be out of town. So, the 7th is already kind of locked in. And we have the CVS parking lot. Parking lot and you have greenfield savings bank on the 7th and those two have been advertised their public hearings, they've been advertised, which we have no information on other than me. No data. No background. We've never talked about it. The rezoning you've never talked about that was brought to the town council and referred to the planning board for a public hearing so we have 65 days to hold it and I just don't understand that I just this is a different agenda item but I just don't get it and I'll get how we got here, or why we're here or what the rush is, and why we are talking holding public hearings when we're completely not ready. Well as I said earlier you can continue a public hearing if you feel like you're not ready to come to a conclusion about it. I'm not ready to have the public hearing I don't know if I'm the only person here would like to see and get information and ask questions and discuss things but I just don't get it I don't seem to have just gone off the rails in terms of the procedure we agreed to. I don't know. But I guess we know, I mean I think we could do archipelago in July and move at least up to August it's not set in stone. I think the design review board would have valuable input, and that's the 19th and I mean, how, how locked in is that Tom. It's pretty locked in I mean we did have a date prior to that that we had to cancel. There was a week before, because we wouldn't have a quorum so we had to push it to the 19. It's new information but it's pretty locked in in terms of scheduling and who's available. So, I think I, it sounds like we really, we can't really do it much sooner than than August Kyle sorry you want to speak. Please. I'd like to ask if we could get a DRB before July 19. Please. And seeing that we resubmitted this, this new proposal. You know, couple weeks ago, and first submitted this on in February so if we could do that that would be greatly appreciated. I'm just here to reveal the, the pressures that are on a project like this to try to execute and deliver. It's very real so if we do get pushed beyond the number of public hearings, and we're not talking until August 4, then the likelihood that this project can proceed is significantly limited if we lose a month and a half every time we have another hearing which has been the case here. So, you know, we're trying to adapt into an environment that's changing in terms of the bylaws that affect our building we're trying to keep an existing property owner. We're moving forward we're trying to invest in downtown, but we have to do that in on a schedule, we can't have a month and a half between every meeting. And it's just, it puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on I think a business that's trying to, you know, invest a significant amount of money in downtown. So if we could, if we could meet DRB before and do planning board on the 14th, I would greatly appreciate it. The reality is that we've sent out legal ads for July 21 for the planning board to meet with the CRC about for zoning amendments. I can pull those back tomorrow. But this is really throwing a monkey wrench into the plans for the summer. I mean the planning board the fact is the planning board has a lot of things on its plate. The planning board and the planning department and the building inspector have been working hard on zoning amendments for the last six months. We have to work in concert with the town council and the CRC we can't just, you know, go on our own schedule. And this is the schedule that's been, you know, given to us so I, I'm at a loss to figure this out. I. My recommendation would be to hold a public hearing on to continue this to July 28. But maybe, you know, we'd have to find out who's available then. So, I don't know. I think of the design review board can can do something. I don't think they can. I really don't think they can I think Maureen has tried really hard to get the design review board together in the month of July. So I think what we can come up with is July 19. So, I just, I don't know, Rob, do you have any suggestions. Just to, you know, confirm that I mean I did speak with Maureen earlier today and, and I know she it took her a while to get dates available with the DRB to have a quorum and the 19th was the question that we asked for the soonest date that she could get together, you know, we asked for the soonest date. And I just add that, you know, we have to give her a reasonable amount of time to prepare the recommendations to deliver to the planning board so, you know, meeting on the 21st will not give her enough time to do that. I would have to say, Kyle, the planning board has been very amenable in terms of meeting as often as is required to, to help this initiative with the zoning bylaws and, and then, you know, we've, you know, you, you changed your design and that's I think it's, it's great that they did that but it's, you did that not us and so that was a month and a half there. But I don't know what to say.  When you say July, July 28, do you want to take a struggle to see this available on July 28. Yeah, because that is that's not a scheduled day for us so we'll be meeting every week in July basically. That's right. So, Doug and then Janet. I believe I could be available on the 28th, although I'd be calling in from wherever I'm vacationing. I guess I was also, I raised my hand to say, should we try to do a marathon session on the 21st and start at, say, 430 and go give ourselves an hour before dinner with archipelago and then, you know, do the regular agenda after dinner. So, but it sounds like but it did sound like Rob didn't think that would give Marine enough time to collect the comments from the DRB. I didn't did the DRB not meet on the original proposal. They met on the original proposal and they gave their recommendations to Kyle and I think they also, I'm not sure if they gave them to us or not. So I guess part of the, I guess I can ask, is this proposal so different that the DRB comments are likely to be significant. I think it's going to be a different level of detail that we're going to be focused on this time and last time it was much more of an open discussion. More of a feedback cycle this time we're going to be going line by line through the design guidelines and how and criteria and how this building meets or does not meet those. So I have a feeling there's going to be a lot more detail involved in this particular phase of the process. So, again, I know it puts a lot of extra work on Maureen and the planning board planning department to squeeze that into two days. I think Maureen can get comments to the planning board by the 21st. I believe she's going on vacation after the 19th anyway. So, if the DRB meets on the 19th, and we take Doug's suggestion of having a marathon night on the 21st, starting early, I don't really think we'll get a break though because the zoning amendments are scheduled to start at 630. So, can I? Oh, Janet. I think I don't see any urgency in having a public hearing on the parking bylaw revisions I don't know what the urgency of that is anyway. We haven't talked about it in any detail. We have no data on parking needs at mixed use buildings versus townhouses versus apartments. There's no urgency to revise the apartment stick definition we haven't done any analysis of where apartments could be how big they could be how many people you know the whole thing. How does that interact with changing the parking requirements? We have no analysis and I can't imagine that on the 21st we need to talk about that and we'll talk or we can and talk about it intelligently. It's not going to take pressure off the planning department. We don't have any information. We haven't done any of this work.  I'm sure we can talk about mixed use intelligently we started we had a good discussion of it we didn't come to any conclusions. I don't know why the town council is sending this to us when we have, you know, I don't know how we got here but I don't know what the pressure is for parking bylaw revisions or apartments definitions that we haven't discussed. I mean, really no information so I would just take them off. I don't want to meet every week and meet for four or five hours on this schedule that I didn't even understand I didn't even know what's going on. Yeah, well we might as well I mean might as well talk about this right now because I mean I thought we had some valuable suggestions on the, you know, mixed use buildings, healthy discussion.  So if we continue our hearing with the CRC are they. Are we going to be ignored. Are we actually going to stop the process of we continue. Why do we have to do this we don't have to meet we don't have to have this hearing we can decide as a board not to have it yet if CRC wants to go ahead. You know, I this this, you know, somehow on Monday, it was represented to the town council that we were on board with these three bylaws revisions that we have never voted on to which we barely looked at I don't know how we got here. And why we're here. They're not done. The mixed use building we were talking about how it wasn't done it wasn't ready and on Monday they were presented to the town council. And suddenly I'm on, you know, I just don't I don't understand this process and I'm not going to keep on saying four or five hour meetings every week, pushing, and we're not going to get the information we need we're not going to do the analysis we need we're not going to do our jobs and we're not under this time pressure why are we here. You know, so where's how about hearing hearing from some others on the planning board about this. Johanna Maria. Do people know about the. I guess I'll say. It's, it's surprising to me, but I also understand the urgency. I don't think we started this in January I think we started this in November. And I think CRC feels urgency I think we all feel urgency to get this work done. That was kind of my sentiment at the last hearing which was like you know what I think we're pretty close on the mixed use bylaw. Let's have a meeting in July and get to the point where we can move it forward. So my guess is that CRC also feels that urgency and that's part of why they're trying to move quickly and so you know I'm Chris I don't know enough about like, you know Janet's point of have we done all the analysis I feel like there's there's a lot of analysis out there we have really talented planning staff. You all are getting ready for these hearings and are going to have things to say I'm sure we'll have questions but you know I I kind of look to you to help guide us in this situation. Thank you, Johanna Maria, your thoughts. Chris, yeah. Thank you, Chris. I think we've done a lot of analysis and we're not really changing that much particularly with regard to apartments and and we've taken out a lot of things that we had in previously that we're wanting to talk to our consultant about because we're going to be hiring a consultant to deal with design guidelines so that have to do with design design guidelines and that are specific to different zoning districts we've taken those out of these two to really zoning amendments and the parking portion of it really just has to do with parking for mixed use buildings parking for apartments and parking for accessory dwelling units so those are the three zoning bylaws that we've been studying a lot in the last few months. And so it's not it's not an overhaul of the parking bylaw completely it's just parking having to do with those three uses and and I feel like we're ready. I really feel like we're ready to move on it so, you know, with one discussion on July 14, I think you can certainly have a public hearing on July 21 and as I said if you're not ready to vote on July 21 then you just continue the public hearing and, you know, have a have a good discussion at another night. So that's my recommendation. Maria please. Yeah, I really trust the planning staff building staff department staff to tell us what's best and like everyone's been saying this is not like the end this is sort of beginning of a conversation so I have no problem. I don't feel like this is like voting on it to approve it and that's done. I think that there's going to be a lot of work still ahead but at least we're getting the gears in motion. As far as the 430 to 1030 thing on 21st. I will be remote for most of the last few weeks of July and so I hope that if we can get material early enough I can review it and send my comments to Chris that's why I emailed about being away because the time zone difference is just too big so I'm trying reading material and sending it and I hope that we can do this big push because the problem was, you know, 2020 everything stopped as far as building and now everything is trying to get through the pipeline and so the, you know, the more our town, you know, get back on speed, I think the better so I really appreciate the board you know putting in these extra hours every month. And I plan to, you know, send my comments or possibly stay up in the wee hours and join in if I feel like it's critical but I think we should push, you know, July and August are hard a lot of people on vacation so as much as we can do for this critical time and our sort of transition from getting out of this pandemic, I think that's for the best. So, Kyle, can you, can you live with the 28th of July for I correct me if I'm wrong but the 21st is what was most recently being discussed. We have a joint hearing that's Chris we can't really change that at this point, plus we were just saying now. There's, you know, huge initiative to get through the bylaws. I'm just trying to advocate Jack for a project that has been in, you know, a long term land ownership for 50 years that we've been working for many years to get across the line that we waited for leases to run out that we were in a pandemic. The bylaw is changing as we after we've designed the building we're trying to accommodate. We're trying to proceed forward so we can have a chance to open this thing on a schedule that works. We're going to have a schedule that we're an active project that will pay real estate taxes and invest millions of dollars in downtown. If we could get in front of some conversations that could occur at a later date. I would greatly appreciate that it would allow us to, you know, have a better chance of pulling this project off on a timeline that would never work. Why don't we ask who's available on the 28. Doug thinks he is. Johanna. Tom. Are we meeting every Wednesday in July, is that what we're committing to. Yes, Janet, not Marie, Maria, are you back by then no. Andrew, population. Andrew, he's already had his vacation, he's got to get back to work. That's right. So six of you are available to meet on the 28. I think that's what we should do. So, we'll do our best, Kyle to make sure that we have everything. And so hopefully we can close the hearing. I appreciate that. Like I said, I'm just trying to advocate, obviously the 14th would be better for us for this project that we're trying to bring for the 28 is the best and we're a month between each project, each meeting and it is what it is. And so I, I think that's all I'm saying. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for understanding. All right, so so many emotions to continue to public hearing for all of these four public hearings to July 28. That's whatever 630 635. Yeah. Second. Second, Doug. Who's Tom Tom moved and Doug seconded. Any discussion. How about we just raise hands. Good. Is that six. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, thanks. Kyle. David. Thank you. Appreciate it. Have a good night. Thank you very much. You too. So going on to the next topic, old business, we've already kind of broached it a little bit, but. I'm trying to remember all these bylaws that makes a bit. I just, you know, the planning board has. You know, skilled people. And I would think the CRC would want to get some, some input.  I'm a little shocked by that, but. I don't know. It is what it is. So we've kind of talked Janet. I mean, we've kind of talked this out already.  I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. Yeah. Because it isn't what it is. It's what we were planning board and we can make decisions. Last Friday or Thursday, I talked to you. About how I felt like, you know, we had 18 zoning bylaw amendments. We had taken care of two or three. The planning department was putting some forward. We just started talking about them. I felt like if we need to get a schedule together. We had a meeting with the city council. We had a meeting with the city council. We had a meeting with the city council. And we were kind of asking the same questions. And you thought that was a good idea. I sent that email to Christine. Saying, let's just put it on the agenda and let's get our handle around this. And then unbeknownst to me, the planning department and the town manager were bringing three zoning bylaw amendments to town council.  I don't know what was brought to them. And the representation night from what I've heard, I don't know what they are. I don't know what they are. But I just don't want to discuss these things. I think that was said, but then I retracted that. It was said by somebody else. And this is not the process that we agreed to with the CRC. And like Chris, didn't you think we might want to heads up? Like that we'd like to know as a planning board that this is happening. And then why do we have to schedule the, we have 65 days. What, what is going on? I just, I don't. there for a couple of years and why wouldn't you tell the planning board what you were doing? Yeah, I mean, the problem is we didn't get through the agenda. I didn't even know what the amendments are, what was taken out and I just I put a lot of time into this. And I know everybody else is holding down jobs and kids. I have the most free time and I'm overwhelmed by this. And I don't want to make decisions or hold hearings. It's not just holding a hearing, we have to make a recommendation. What possible recommendation can I make on a CVS parking lot? But I know almost nothing about it. And how did that get scheduled without the planning board knowing? And the only reason we saw the bylaw, it's not even a bylaw, it's like a, you know, it's a paragraph is because I asked for it. I don't know, are we part of the process? We're we, you know, what what is going on that no one's including us? Well, that came, that one came to the town council, it bypassed us. It came right to the town council and the town council referred it for a public hearing to the planning board, to the planning board and you get it. Well, what day was that? They referred it on May 24. To hold a public hearing. And you sent it out. After I asked for it, because I'd heard about it from someone talking about it. And we have 65 days to why is this an urgent rescheduling? Like, what, why is this on our schedule? I have no information on a meeting of the hearing in seven days. Why weren't why isn't why aren't we part of this loop? Like, why didn't you say this when I was sending my email? I don't get it. Like, look at everybody. We're all here all the time. There's, yeah, there's a lot that's happening. You know, if you want to know, I'm here almost all the time. I'm here at night. I'm just there's just so much going on. And I apologize if I didn't communicate well enough with the planning board. I, I guess I was thinking that you were kind of paying attention to what's going on with the town council and the CRC, but maybe that's not a reasonable expectation. And I tried to I think I did let you know as soon as you questioned me about that, you found out you may have found out right after the referral for the CVS parking lot. And then you reached out to me and I sent it out. And I think I sent it out to everybody at that time. And we did meet with you on apartments and mixed use buildings. I can't remember the exact dates right now, but it's been those things have been evolving since March. So I don't feel like this is coming out of the blue. The the latest version of it may be, you know, the latest version that the CRC tweaked instead of the latest version that the planning board tweaked. But it seemed like it was those three things. No, those two things, apartments and mixed use buildings were particularly mixed use buildings were bouncing back and forth between the planning board and the CRC. And the planning board and the CRC had different opinions about them. So the feeling was that it was really time to get the planning board and the CRC together to talk about them. And the way to do that is to have public hearing. And that's what you'll be doing on the 21st. So Chris, so we know, so we, we tried to do this on the 16th and we got bogged down with the mixed use buildings, lots of good ideas, though, discussed. So we punted on the apartments and the parking. But you're saying that these are relatively easy lifts compared to the mixed use buildings that like inclusionary zoning that we went through and I think it's very easy. There are hardly any changes. One of the changes So that's that there's an upside there, I think, Janet. But anyway, it's 10, it's past 10. You know, maybe I can I can try to reach out to Mandy and kind of see what's going on and Mandy, Joe, and just kind of get a feel for what's going on with the what you know, the CRC is being, you know, is facing. But at this point, can we I don't think we're going to accomplish anything more on this. So let's just finish our agenda, I think, and I know I got a lot of work tomorrow. So new business. No new business. Okay. Form A and RS of the vision application. You'll get one next week, I think. Okay. And the SPP SPR SCZ. No, we don't have any. Okay, I have actually, we do have a new one. We have a parking lot down on Bay Road, which is just a small parking lot for the Oh, that's right. trail. I think I might do about that last time. Yep. So the liaison reports, committees, I have nothing from Pioneer Valley Planning Commission. CPAC Andrew's not here. Ag Commission Doug. Yeah, exciting news on the Ag Commission. Last month we had him a quorum and I told you we we voted a new chair. Earlier this week, our new chair resigned from the commission. So the turmoil continues. Wow. And Tom, you're meeting the 19th. We know Yep, we did have a meeting about the sweet Alice trail, which we're going to talk about the trailhead I think next week. And now I'm actually blanking. I didn't get a chance to look at my notes with the other project we looked at Robert Chris remembers, but I'll share notes with that next meeting. And we've talked about the CRC already. I mean, I will I'll reach out to Mandy and if I can kind of get some feedback and find out what the rationale was, but I know we did not, you know, we did not contribute. Can you talk to her about the process chart that we spent meetings talking about with them and what happened to that? Okay. And I'll send it around to the rest of us. So I can report that the CRC talked about the BL zoning district and the BL overlay the last time they met. And the last time they met was June 8th. Is that right, Rob? No, June 22nd. They met on June 22nd and talked about the BL overlay district. So they're wanting to move ahead with that. And Mr. Marshall has his hand up. Doug? Yeah, I haven't looked at the flow chart that we worked out with CRC in a number of months. But my recollection was it started with town council receiving a proposal and then referring it down for hearings. No. No. Well, well, there's multiple way, there's multiple ways that a proposal can end up with town council and they don't all go through us. So this could happen again. Yes. Whether it's a citizen initiative or it comes from planning department or it comes from a town counselor, they can, they can receive things that we've never seen and that their next act is to refer it to us for a hearing. I understand that. And I understand that's what happened Monday night when the planning department and town manager did that. But if you look at the the chart that we agreed to a CRC, that's not the process that we're how we work together and and how the planning department is supposed to go to the town council, discuss an issue, send it to CRC planning board, we talk about it, we go back and forth.  I mean, it's just it would be nice if we followed that chart. But if we're going to get like a new I mean, one of my questions was like what's coming next week and we can't do it. We're doing it. We're going to do a crummy job on this stuff. I mean, we don't have the information like changing apartments from 24 units per building to an unlimited number. Taking away parking spaces. This affects the RG. It affects every district that apartments are, you know, I mean, it's just this is like what is it going to look like? We have no design standards. We can just have a lot of boxy apartments all over town. Wouldn't we like to know that? And I know the planning department can give it to us, but not under the conditions that they're functioning under and I don't understand why. I mean, I don't I don't want to make Chris work every night. I don't want us to meet every week. There's some kind of urgency. It might be an election, but that's not my urgency. And I don't think it's the planning boards, you know, let's do a good job on what we have. And take our time with it.  Yeah, well, I mean, again, I think it may not be as bad as we're making it out, Janet. So we'll just. You know, stay with the program and just and, you know, and if it's if it's, you know, a ridiculous proposition, then I think at that point, again, we could continue the hearing and take the time that we need to understand it and give our feedback. So they could also hold the hearing without us and we can have a separate hearing. I don't think that's inconceivable. True. Doug, is your hand still up? No. Okay. All right. So let's let's adjourn here. We'll report to staff. I mean, you have anything too much work, right? Anything's going on? Yeah, that's all. Okay, well, everyone have a great evening and then we'll see y'all next week. And thank you. Thank you. Where's my hand? There it is. Good night, Jack. You want to stop clobbering? What?


Sex is not about the orgasm, it continues beyond the orgasm. It started before you were naked.  She'll never forget you. The reason why I put this long-ass quote in there, and again, you can download all this stuff, is because this was brought up in that last part. Don't make sex about the orgasm. Sure, if you're young, it's a force of nature.  Then you're like, no, no, I'm cool.  Kind of got to make it about the orgasm. It's a little bit too overwhelming. But you want to eventually make it less about that. You want to make it about the experience. And what I mean by this, guys, because a lot of guys are like, they'll stand up here and they're like, you could go down on her. Well, of course you could.  The sexual deficit in our culture makes women give away sex, not by choice, but by definition. That means men aren't treating them truly as sexual beings, right? Because I'll ask them. I'll say something like, what's the most attractive thing about you? It's like, shit, you're not. 30 seconds a minute, what's the most attractive thing about you or what you think of men or whatever? And they say something and I say, here's a better question. What's the most attractive thing about you that nobody ever notices? And they go, I don't know. I say, well, wait a minute. You have a boyfriend or not or yes? What was the last time, a guy that you really loved and you know what this is? That he kissed that part, that he felt that part, something that only your family could see or your best friend could see and that he touched you in that way.  And then I say, hey, let's go on a date. No, but seriously, man, seriously. 30 seconds? It's that quick, right? And you can see that as some routine or whatever, yada, yada, yada.  That's a window to what our culture is about sex. This woman who, whether she has cosmetic beauty or beauty in some other way because it comes in all different flavors and yes, sure, there's women that just aren't beautiful in any way. But you got to find that out. You got to know what you like because it's not just appearance, right? It's more than that.  And what does that tell them? What does that tell them about their beauty? They get desperate of it. They start making decisions.  They have bad relationships. They start doing the same thing as us and thinking, well, he fucks me so good. I have this different experience. I'm going to love him. This is who I want to get pregnant with. This is who I want to have a relationship with. Man, it's crazy, man. You don't know what you want. You're going to get what you take.


Hello there, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the stock swashin' tonight. I thought I would do a review, a lesson for this week, and the lesson is that when you're in a trade, and you get a very, very large big bar in whatever direction you're trading it, whether long or short, and we're gonna go over both examples here today. And if you're in a move, and you're up really a lot of money, and the stock is running, running, running into you in your direction, into the close of the business day, which is four o'clock. And I'm using a day trade example, but actually even if you're in an option, it's the same principle for looking for your exit. You never, never wanna miss your exit in a trade.  Now, first we're gonna look at bullish bars. And again, this is a great lesson for everybody, lesson of the week. And to me, this is common sense. But Walmart had a massive, huge, gymungous bar on Thursday last week. So 1116, stock capped up, open at 95, 12, dropped, broke, ran up, almost got to 100 points of the stock price. So it had a $4 plus move on that day. Now if you're looking at the chart here, again in Walmart, go back, back, back, there are no bars that look as big as the bar that happened on Thursday. So if you're in the stock long in Walmart on a day like this, you have to get out of it. You have to get out of it into the close for a day trade, for a swing trade, for an option trade, anything. Because the chances of the bar continuing after a huge, huge, huge, big, tremendous move on that day are very small. So again, common sense says to exit into the close of the day in a big, big bar. And if you're in a day trade, you've got to get out by four. And if you don't, if you carry the day trade overnight, which sometimes people do, you will end up flipping your margin, which if you have a four to one day trading margin on a flip to two to one, you got to be able to cover it into the next day. Or if you forget to get out or don't get out or don't manage your trade and you're in an prop account, they may actually exit the trade for you.  But it really doesn't matter. You should be watching on a day like this for the stock is running, running, running, running with huge power in the right direction that you're in, which in this case was long. And let's look at a short. And this is a great example because you know what stock didn't continue. Is the stock higher? Yes. Is it going to go higher right away? Is the answer is no. Not after bar like happened on Thursday. Target was a terrific short, open and swushed. This was last week. Let's pull you up here. Was a short. So whether you shorted it as a day trade or did an option put, guess what? The exit was into the close if you held it. Went to the dream target close to 54 bucks. 55 was a good number for this in the day. Had a huge bar. High of the day was 57.91. Low was 54.04. Almost a $4 bar. Again, huge move for the stock. Do you think it's going to continue in the bigger picture? Of course. But the very next day down when it closes the loan, no, no. And it did not. Actually it flipped and ran over the high of the gap in the last couple of days. Anyways, the point is you can't miss your exit on these things. One of stock is dropping, dropping, dropping and you're in a short. It has a big fat, massive red bar and closes in near the low. You got to exit that trade into the close. Well, it's a swing trade, option trade, some piece of the trade or all of the trade.  You're going to be charged extra from the broker. Like I said, depending on what type of account you have. If you're in a long and it rallies, rallies, rallies all day, a big fat, huge, massive green bar in the day compared to the chart. Compared to the average daily move of the stock on the day which you have to look at every stock is different and it's closing green and it's closing near the highs. You've got to take your exit on that day. So lesson of the week is do not miss your exit on trains and lesson of the week is also when you have a big fat, huge, massive move in the day in the stock and you're in it in the right direction. Get out before the close. Get out before the close. The chances of it continuing the next day and having another huge, massive move the next day are so rare that it almost never happens. And if it does, it does. If you get out the day, you're supposed to get out. You're still going to be out. So just get out. So that's a lesson of the day and the week. Have a great day everyone. If you're interested in more information on learning how to day trade gaps, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com.


Our next speaker is Geraldine Villaluz from the University of San Carlos School of Education in Cebu City. And her talk today is on Talahandig Conflict, Settlers Peace Traditions. Let's welcome Geraldine. Yeah, of course. Yeah. You might want your PowerPoint presentation. And also, is it insert? Yeah. Okay. So it's there. Do you need my help with the slideshow? You want me to stay here? Thank you, Trixie. My presentation will be a product of my dissertation on the peace processes, I mean the conflict settlers who are mothers in the Talahandig tribe in Malay-Balay-Bukid, not north of Mindana. I am a teacher in music, Philippine music, and peace and global education. And as a teacher of that, those subjects, I have observed the lack of resources on indigenous music and peace theories from indigenous perspectives in our libraries and even in bookstores. And so I sought for resources among performing bands of playing indigenous music around malls in Cebu City. Happily, it was in one group of young artists who introduced me to the Talahandig community from whom I learned about mothers who are conflict settlers and their spirituality. Before I introduce the Talahandig, I would like to introduce some terms which I will be using in the presentation. One is soil painting. Soil paintings are images from Talahandig culture illustrated using soil as pigment. And so here are mothers pounding some samples of their soil around in the environment and putting a little water and glue and using it as pigment. And a sample of that is this one. And another word is the word ba'i. Ba'i is a title given to an individual whose contribution to communities such as skill, talent or knowledge, such as winemaking, conflict settling, places her in a position of high respect. It is an honorific title. What I will share this afternoon are ethnographic presentations of Talahandig mother's definition of peace. So now I'm going to present to you perspectives of mothers on what they mean about peace and how they sustain it and identification of values that can shape the future agendas of research in education. The Talahandig community is in the north of Mindanao in Malay-Balay, Bukidnon. And specifically in one of the barangays or districts named Tsungko, this one, where the Talahandig Cultural Center is situated. The Talahandig is one of the seven tribes in Bukidnon. So this is a traditional map of the Talahandig Bukidnon, Higaonon, and Manovo territories. And the chief administrator, Victorino Sawai, affirms that there are 100 individuals, 100,000 individuals who populate around the heritage park of Mount Kitanglad and have spread out around Mindanao through intermarriage. These are the community of elders and cultural masters. So we notice that most of the cultural masters and elders are women. And I'm happy with the presentation of Sir Patricia Abinales, who mentioned that there is a silent voice among the conflict settlers in Mindanao, and those are the women voices. Talahandig women live a tradition of peacemaking in Bukidnon. They are garden farmers, mothers, and conflict settlers in the community and among tribal groups in local government units in Bukidnon until now. When there are conflicts, re-do, tribal conflicts, the local government units would call on these women to help them in the settling or implementation of the customary laws. Oral tradition narrates of highly respected women in the community, Baigawa Hanan, known to be a popular conflict settler during her time, Baimayabeg and Sa'opak, were princesses who settled conflicts between tribes through marriage. This jar of oil is a symbol reminding each Talahandig of their role as conflict settler. A sacred history narrates of the Maranao, Magindanao, Manobo, and Talahandig as brothers and sisters. They belong to one family. Their parents are Apo Gawa Hanan, Apo Ginamayeng, and the father. The Talahandig being the eldest child was chosen to keep the jar of oil, symbol of the responsibility and authority to initiate the customary kinship laws when conflict occurs. Through soil painting, five mothers illustrate their images and definitions of peace. So one mother, Ba'i Adelfasa Waikinuyo. She is a teacher of the School for Living Traditions, a conflict settler and a storyteller. She paints her image of peace as a young woman holding a jar of oil, which is the symbol of the Talahandig identity, a conflict settler. She says, quote, this is the image of a young Talahandig who lives out our culture. She holds the symbol of peace, the jar of oil. A young person who lives out the culture of peace in her or his life will always follow the Talahandig culture. There is peace when we live out our identity and code. As a teacher of the School for Living Traditions, Adelfa and the other mothers with her sustained the culture of peace by passing on the values and traditions of the young through music. This is the rhythm produced by, from drum and kalatong, bamboo, with bamboo sticks. They play it to dance, to accompany the dance called banana, which is a hawk dance, music. I am dance. This is the dance, duksu harvest dance, and for them, when they harvest, it is peace for them to give, to thank, to pay their respects to the spirit keeper of harvest. And so, because we are not the only users of land, so they would like to thank the owner, the owner of land, the spirit keeper of soil and land through dance and rituals. And this is one, you will see the cultural master, the dance expert teaching these young women in the School for Living Tradition about the duksu dance. That's the master. Another mother, a conflict settler herself by Ildur Desawai, explains her definition of peace, quote, as a mother, peace is achieved when no one is hungry or sick in the family and in the community. As a conflict settler, it is very important that before I go to settle a conflict, I pray and listen attentively to the spirit keeper of peace who guides me through dreams, unquote. Another young mother, Salima Sawai Agraan, a mother of two future artists, illustrated the Talaandig framework for justice and peace. The weighing scale here, we call Timbangan, the measuring cup we call Gantangan, and the model discerner here, Agpangan. In this work, she has placed the important symbols of Talaandig peace and what it means to be a Talaandig mother. She says, quote, this is the symbol of the Talaandig peace and justice. There is purity, patience, and always listening before one makes a decision. On his back is Bagiasan, a Talaandig symbol of balance. In his hand, he holds the traditional law. It is the golden rule, which means that there should always be balance, patience and listening, proper process in giving judgment. On his shirt, one can see the star, Tala, the moon. He carries the eye both in the morning and in the evening. The measuring cup is a reminder that anything extra should be shared to the one who is in need. And the bird image at the black of the arbiter is a symbol that as human beings, we are models of peace, and that we should be listening to the spirit keeper of peace, that is Salima Sawai. Another mother, Ba'i Nanapnai Lisa Sawai, she's the leader of the Talaandig mother. So if you're interested to visit them, you communicate with her through messenger or Facebook. She's the leader of the Talaandig mothers, actively sustaining the peace culture and explains peace as Kalinandang, Kalinandang balance. Peace is balance. In a community, the role of each one is significant. There has to be balance. The balance means that there should be the presence of the young and the old, the man and the woman. The loss of one does not give peace to a society." And the last mother, Ba'i Elanita Pangan is a garden farmer. She talks of peace as one who listens and discerns by reading the position of stars in the sky. Ba'i Elanita painted the position of the stars as guide for farmers to plant at the appropriate time. She explains, quote, As a farmer, we pay attention to the position of stars in the sky. I have illustrated peace in the position of these stars we call Migbangal. These stars change positions in the sky depending on the season. When this star is formed this way, it signifies the time for us farmers to plant and use the land. When the season changes, the Migbangal star turns its position into a question mark in the sky, so this one. This indicates that this is not the season to plant. It will be very hot. Nothing will grow because this is the time for insects and animals to use the land. If we risk to plant at this time, our resources and efforts will be put to waste because the insects and animals will eat them all. End quote. Ba'i Elanita emphasizes that as creatures of this planet, we all have the right time to cultivate the earth and the time to allow other creatures in our planet to use the land. The values from Thalaandikbis traditions that I have gathered are these. One is a dialogic relationship between, this is according to the mothers themselves, the relationship, a dialogic relationship between the self and family and community, the self and the environment and the spirit keepers, the self and the provider, the greatest provider whom we call God. Second is a listening attitude discern, we religious call it discernment. It's a listening attitude between the self and the family and community, the self and the environment, the spirit keepers, the self and the great provider. And the next value is a deep sense and spirit of prayer which they feel, one has to feel it from here, not from here. So it has to be from dinhawa, breath, that they go to settle a conflict. In summary, the mother's definition of peace lead us to the values of knowledge of one's identity, of knowing oneself, the value of prayer, discernment and listening. The peace cannot be attained when there is security of food and health. When we seek to attain balance in our life and in our choices and when we recognize our place and role in this planet and respect that. The Datu, the chief administrator of the community said that he has been working to unite the seven tribes in Bukidnon and for a long time, for several years, he felt that he was a failure and through food security, he chose a particular, is that my time? No. That's a program. I see. Through using taro, taro plant, we call luchia. It's a small root crop and it's an indigenous food. He was able to organize and unite the tribes. He said without food, fight for integration and identity is useless because the tribes are hungry. But because there is one Unifruti producer for export, the Parine is the owner of Unifruti and he dialogued with Datu Victorinasawa and he bought this from the produce of the seven tribes of taro, taro plant and he produces this and they all make it into chipi, like chipi. Then we buy some junk food and this crispies, so they produce that and because of that, he was able to unite the seven tribes. Soil painting of the tala and dig is symbolic of the dialogue between tradition and the global economy in our world today. The colors of Bukidnon soil, which is used as pigment, representing ancestral lands and indigenous knowledge, and the artist's brush, which is a tool of western art, are symbols of dialogue that can propose answers to questions of sustainability today. The mother's perspective on the tala and dig piece tradition illustrates that their claim for identity is one of inclusivity and sustainability. This circular way of looking at and relating with the environment presents a challenge to our current research and educational agenda. Anthropologist Arjun Apadurai in 1990 has asserted that our global culture has created landscapes of disjunctures and new spaces in technology, media, finance, ideology and ethnic migrations. Presented Duwara in 2015, a Raffles professor of humanities further asserts that human activity has reached an irreparable state of our planet. We need new paradigms of moving forward. Duwara argues that we need to listen to groups or communities who are still committed to living out the spiritual relationship of the sacred and the secular. To save our planet, we have to move from linear ways of decision making to a circular way, from individualistic to an inclusive one. The mother's tala and dig piece traditions claim for identities through art and culture, therefore is a claim not only for the integrity of the tala and dig peoples, but the integrity of our planet's sustainable existence as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Most people my age will say, to some degree, that they don't like their parents. I've heard my classmates say it dozens of times, maybe hundreds. Some of them say it out of frustration and contradict it later. But a few, like me, have a reason for saying it. My parents were normal people when I was born. My dad was a landscaper with a mildly successful company. While my mom was a hairstylist, money wasn't pouring in, but we could get by. It all changed when I turned five. As a hobby, dad liked to buy lottery tickets, only one a month in case he got lucky. One day, he did. Big time. Suddenly, he had 50 million reasons to celebrate. In less than a year, he'd bought out a few successful companies and we were rolling in money. Mom adapted to the lifestyle of a millionaire's wife very quickly. As for me, I'd be lying if I said that five year old me didn't enjoy suddenly having whatever I wanted. But money and what it can do can change people. Shooting to the top of the social ladder was an instantaneous ego boost to both of my parents. My dad, after he'd bought a big house, fancy cars, and all of the other standard toys, began finding other ways to use his money. I got slapped when I was six for taking what I thought was sugar out of my desk drawer. Thankfully, I didn't need any. He became paranoid, narcissistic, and just different. Mom was no better. She practically lived at the mall, clothes, shoes, makeup, hats, jewelry, anything she liked she bought. She also discovered alcohol in a new way. Before the lottery ticket, I can't remember her having more than one glass of wine with dinner. Suddenly, it was all she wanted to drink scotch bourbon grey goose. She tried and liked it all. I didn't recognize them anymore. They were selfish vain and barely acknowledged my existence. True, they paid for me to attend a good private school and showered me with gifts at Christmas and on my birthday, but I couldn't talk to them like I used to. I wanted to be able to talk to them again. To make them see me, I might as well have tried to talk to two statues. Everything changed again when I was 14. I came home from school one rainy Thursday night and no one was there. I was surprised but not worried. Last minute trips weren't unusual for them. Once they left me alone for a whole week without so much as a note. While they took a surprise couple's trip to Tokyo, I can't complain. They brought me back a t-shirt. They still hadn't come home on Friday morning. I still wasn't worried. I was surprised, though, that they hadn't called or texted. Still, I didn't let myself worry. I went to school with a limo driver, got a chai latte and muffin for breakfast, and I tried to forget about it. I came home that night. Still no parents. I still tried not to worry. The weekend flew by. I called them. No answer. I texted. I even emailed. Nothing. I took myself to the movies and met with a few friends to try and take my mind off of my parents. It was by Monday when dad's personal assistant stopped by to ask why he wasn't answering his phone, that I finally realized something was wrong. I didn't know what to do. I considered calling the cops, but I didn't. I remembered when someone broke into Mom and I's hotel room when she and I were on a trip in London. I tried to call the police, but she'd slapped me. She refused to allow the press to give us negative publicity. Thus, she cut our losses and booked us an immediate flight home. But this was different. After mauling my few options, I finally decided to go into their room and look for clues. I'd been all but banned from their room after I'd found the bag of not sugar, but at that point I was getting desperate. I gasped when I entered their room. The place was trashed. The bed's mattress had been gutted. Stuffing was everywhere. The pillows had met the same fate and the blankets were tied into knots. The headboard had been knocked askew and scratches in the paint showed that it had been violently knocked against the wall. The dresser had been knocked on the floor, with my mother's extensive jewelry collection lying in a tangled mess. Their clothes were all over the floor, ripped to shreds, mixed in with a snow white powder, which I instantly knew was my father's. But the trashed room wasn't what scared me. The canopy over their bed had been ripped from the post and nailed to the wall. On it was a message written in my father's black fountain pen. It said, the mirror knows the way. I automatically turned to my mother's vanity in the corner. It was untouched. There was something off about the mirror's reflection. As I walked closer, I realized why. It wasn't a reflection at all. I saw a bedroom, but it wasn't the room I was in. I didn't want to touch the surface. I wanted to run. But for one moment, it felt like I didn't have control of myself. Before I knew what was happening, I touched the mirror. Suddenly, I felt something akin to a huge gust of wind hitting me in the face. It all happened so fast that I couldn't even register what I was seeing. All I know for sure was that one moment I was in my parents' ruined bedroom and the next moment I was there wherever there was. It reminded me of a church chapel, tall ceilings, somewhat simple structure, and long hallways. Except, the walls were all black and they were made of some type of unidentifiable material. There weren't any windows, light bulbs, or even candles, but there was still light. The floor was blood red and seemed to almost pulsate. I was scared out of my mind. I was looking for a way out, anyway, and then I heard a voice. I tried to find out where it was coming from and I started to walk in that direction. I found myself in a huge entry hall. Floating in something resembling a bubble over a gigantic throne were my parents, but it was what was lying on that throne that caught my attention. It had the body of a gigantic bubblegum pink snake with thousands of hands and a watermelon shaped head, but the most striking thing was its face. It had pale purple eyes and a Cheshire cat grin. Finally, I found my voice. Why are you doing this? What do you want? First. What kind of game? A child is incredibly rich. I could eat you for a week. On the other hand, for the same amount of time, I can't decide. So, you will, if you choose to go home in the next few days, you will be able to find out where it is coming from. So, I found my voice. Why are you doing this? What do you want? First. What kind of game? A child is incredibly rich. I can't decide. So, you will, if you choose to go home and leave your parents with me, then I will eat them both and never bother you again. If you choose to stay, however, then you will be consumed while they return home with no memory of what has transpired. I call it catch and release. I was shocked. Either they died, or I would. I tried to think. What would they do if the tables were reversed? I looked at them in the bubble.  My dad was dressed for work, wearing a three-piece suit and his favorite green tie. My mom was dressed in her favorite blue sweater and designer jeans. Both had bruises and scratches all over their faces. Could I talk to them for a moment first? The creature looked at the bubble. Then me. That can be. I shot into the air and entered the bubble. My parents remained in their trance for a second. Then they blinked and saw me and where they were.  My father eyes wide with shock, anger, and fear whirled around, staring at his prison. My mother, in a similar state of shock, went over to me and started to shriek. What have you done? Get us out of here! I never got a word in. They just kept shrieking. After a few seconds, I just tuned them out. Like a movie, memories resurfaced, being slapped for touching or doing things I shouldn't have, getting yelled at for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. I wasn't their child anymore. I was just a part of their image. I was suddenly overwhelmed with anger, hate, and grief. I didn't want them to come home with me. I wanted them gone.  Before their tirade ended, I was yanked back down to the ground, facing the creature once again. I looked again at the bubble. They were staring at me. There was no anger in their faces anymore, just shock and fear. I wonder now and then if they realized what I was about to do. Take them. The creature's grin got wider, and in less than a minute, I was in the middle of my parents' bedroom again. It wasn't a mess anymore. The bed was all made up, the canopy was attached, the wardrobe was standing, the floor was clean, and the mirror was a mirror again. I was numb. Then I realized what I'd done. I broke down weeping. I still don't know if it was out of sadness or joy. I called the police. I told the truth. My parents were missing. My aunts came to stay with me while the police started an investigation. They found nothing. I knew they wouldn't. The will left their entire fortune to me. I'm allowed to have full ownership of it when I turn 25. Until then, I'll stay with my aunts in the huge house that now belongs to them. I went to therapy, where I told them the true story, disguising it as a dream. I'm okay now, mostly. The story got out that my parents had emotionally and physically abused me. Their reputation was destroyed, other than my aunts, the pastor and I. No one came to their funeral. I didn't even put a rose on their graves. I can't complain. Things could have ended a lot worse. My aunts are better parental figures than my parents ever were. But I don't keep mirrors in the house anymore.


Nutrient pollution is a widespread international problem. Nitrogen is important for aquatic plant growth and supports entire ecosystems, but too much of it can cause algae blooms and coastal dead zones. In the southeast of South Australia lies a jewel of biodiversity, supporting a very valuable fishery which has sustained its traditional owners through many, many generations. The Kurong is a coastal lagoon at the end of the mighty Murray-Darling Basin and runs over 100km in parallel with the Southern Ocean. It's also been internationally recognized as an important migratory water bird habitat. And through many years of drought and human activities upstream in the basin, it's seen a massive decrease in freshwater flow to the system. It's become very salty and faces extreme nutrient pollution. What if there was a way for tiny microbes in the dirt to help? Huge communities of microorganisms live inside this small sample. We know that some of them are able to limit the amount of nitrogen in the environment, which could help fighting nutrient pollution. Unfortunately, we don't fully understand their activity in salty conditions such as this. My current research investigates the role that rapidly changing conditions play in stressing out these communities and potentially preventing them from performing their role correctly. Our team takes core samples like this one, and we can look at the genetic code inside of here to better understand the processes and figure out how and when to use our precious freshwater resources. So what's the limit nitrogen pollution in the environment? These communities are often overlooked, and we don't fully understand their role here. This understanding is important to correctly managing this unique environment.


So my dad ended up taking me to the studio. I couldn't even reach the mic. We had phone books, I said we'd talk to phone books. I couldn't get the notes right, so my daddy had to lay a dummy track and I had to listen to it like four or five times. And then my dad was like, can you do it now? Yeah. Bar baby. Pay no attention to that. Bar baby. We on boss talk one on one, one on one. Here we go on talk. When you and Big Mo did that song, how did it, for you, you were young, but how did it, how did it happen in your eyesight? So I was six when it, when we actually recorded the song and D-Wreck and Note D actually called my dad. I was told that they were trying to use a sample. Couldn't find a sample. So my dad ended up taking me to the studio. I couldn't even reach the mic. We had phone books, I said on top of the phone books. I couldn't get the notes right, so my daddy had to lay a dummy track and I had to listen to it like four or five times. And then my dad was like, can you do it now? Yeah. Bar baby. And they was like, yeah, that's it, baby girl, that's it. I didn't really pay no attention. I got down, got my Barbies when sat in the studio while they did whatever they did. When it hit was when I went home and I don't know how they did this so fast compared to now how you got to get everything mixed in master before you even. I got home, getting ready to get in the bed, go to school, and my daddy caught on the radio and he said, listen, you got this brand new joint by your very own big mom, Barbabie. Future and Ron, that's expensive. It's the Barbabie. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, quick, yo. That quick, that's quick. And I'm just trying to figure out like, how did they, now knowing what I know, like it's processing steps where they just show you how much power they had back then and how the times were and put this on the bed. Put that on there and get it done. I got time listening to the song too. It got to a point where when we were getting the car to go to school and I'd hear that, my granny, what did you do to her? I don't want to hear it. Did your friends know it was you? No, because I went to a private school. Okay. So I went to a Christian private school. So it. Them kids didn't know nothing. They didn't know, they don't listen to that type of music. It was going by y'all over there. They was trying to straight listen to whatever they were being told in that school. That's it. And when I made the transition in third grade to go to public school, some of the kids knew. Yeah. But they didn't know it was me and my daddy had instilled to me, don't tell nobody that she keep it quiet. Wow. This is a public school. Privacy. You don't know how these people are. Oh, you're talking private to public. Yeah. And then I went to middle school, Beverly Hills Intermediate and it's one guy named Ray Gonzalez. I want to play a game of Google. Is that Ray? We gonna Google our names. I wasn't thinking, I was like, We got free to do that. We got free period. You want to Google people's names, Google. You didn't even know what would pop up? We Googled everybody's name, got to mine, probably third to last and it popped up. I know to spend said bar babies, but I was like, oh, I'm getting in trouble. I'm in trouble. What did they say when they seen it? What did your friend say? I didn't have a cell phone. I wasn't allowed to have a cell phone in school. My daddy said the only person you need to call was me and if you need to call me, go to the principal's office. They got their razors, right? And they texting people and I'm like, what are y'all doing? Ray was like, why you didn't tell us? My daddy told me not to tell y'all. I get called down to the office. Oh, you got called to the office for this? I got called down to the office. The word spread that quickly. It spread quick enough to get to my daddy's phone. I got called down to the office. I get down there and my dad and my grandmother and my daddy looking at me like. He was about, what, 10, 11, 12? I was about 11 and 12. He looking like, what did I tell you? It's not that hard to keep your mouth shut. I'm trying to explain to him, it's not my fault it was Ray and he like, who was Ray? He Googled it. And then my grandmother was like, technology. You can't stop that, Brian. Right, yeah. So he was like, we're gonna have to have a talk with the teachers. They had to talk with the teachers. Kids treated me okay. I got a little special treatment, you know. But for the most part, kids, they treated me fine. And when I got to high school, it was a whole different ball game. When I got to high school. He was in high school with me. Oh, this is true. Dad, nigga, high school, sweetheart. This nigga, man, out of nowhere. Did he ignore you? Out of nowhere. No, he was my crush. She had a girlfriend, so. He was my crush. Oh, that nigga Cheetah. Okay. I was nerdy. Like I had the glasses and then I transitioned into contacts my junior year and all that stuff. So when I would see him, it was kind of like, you know, to my friends, nigga, he got a girl. But what I would say was, junior year, senior year, people really started finding out. You said that's that girl that was on the big mode. How did they react? What did they do? High school was a trip. I went from nobody to somebody. It was cool with everybody. You had the people that didn't like me. I didn't really care. You had the ones that was the non-believers, didn't really carry you there. Then you had the ones that were in the music industry that knew, that recorded at my daddy's studio. It was like, nah, you good. We got you nowhere. Then you had just the ones that wanted to just say, hey, I sat with her or I took a picture with her. But I was cool with everybody. I didn't have any problems. I wasn't a problem child because my daddy didn't have a problem coming up to the school. My daddy didn't either. But in high school, it was just kind of like, you sing bar baby. They treated me like a celebrity, but it was kind of like, oh, she cool. Yvonetta, yeah, she cool. She sing too. I wanted talent shows. Wow.  I get up there and do my little, you know, I sing Chaka Khan. Hey. So I get up there. To the fire. You know, they rock with me. The teachers rock with me. But high school was okay. Middle school just kind of scared me because I didn't know what was going to happen. I didn't know if I was going to get in trouble about Ronnie. Sorry, daddy, call you by your first name. Let me ask you so. So when Big Mo died, how was that? How was, and well, let's not talk about that. Let's talk about you getting older and him still, you know, you and him having that relationship. What was that like? I would get calls. They kept in touch with my grandmother a lot. So I would get calls making sure that those grades never dropped.  And that just wasn't from bold. That was from all of them. Like all of them. Like who? Uncle Screw.  He was my cousin's godfather. So he was family too. And he wants these money, you better keep them grades above average. I'm letting you slide with the A minus but baby girl education is key. Okay, Uncle Screw, even grades drop. You can't come to the house with no more. You can't be doing none of that no more until you get your grades. And it was the same thing with all of them. My Uncle Derek was the same way. CEO of Rec Shop. Rec Shop. Them boys went home. Yeah. Progress report to report cards was mandatory. Wow. Did you get paid? I wanted to keep ID. As I'm about to say, did you get paid for that report card? I'm still paying to this day. They let me slide with B minuses. But if it was a C on there, we had a C talking. Like sometimes I couldn't go to the studio but until I brought it up.


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the question. How much do you think an endangered bird should be? So I said no more than 4k, she said 10k. So in Africa there's this bird called the weaver bird and a male builds a nest and the female comes and she tries to tear it apart sometimes taking 10 minutes to rip it apart. She wants to see if he can provision her and pickier weaver birds have done better the females so we're just like birds man women want to see how much you can provision so welcome to the game