Item Number SCP-892 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-892 is to be contained within maximum security vault located 1 meters beneath site. All 05 personnel are to be issued a magnetic access key coupled with an individual passcode. A minimum of 3 05 overseer personnel access keys and corresponding passcodes are required to begin a 48-hour unlock sequence to grant access to SCP-892. Should all 13 05 overseer personnel access keys and corresponding passcodes be entered simultaneously, the vault will unlock immediately. Access to SCP-892 is permitted strictly under 05 supervision and for the sole purpose of attempting to identify the location of SCP-892-2. In the event that the SCP-892-2 is located, all 05 personnel are to be alerted and Mobile Task Force Move 4, aka Debuggers, is to be dispatched. In the event of containment breach, SCP-892 is to be defended at all costs. The risk of SCP-892 falling into the wrong hands could have catastrophic results for the Foundation as a whole, as well as the rest of the world. In the unlikely event that site is to be overrun, SCP-892 is to be decommissioned immediately. Unauthorized access is grounds for immediate termination. Description. SCP-892 is an Amstrad 286 personal computer with accompanying mouse and keyboard, running a version of Microsoft Excel 92. Attempts to export and import save files result in corruption of said files. Attempts to install and uninstall software are likewise met with failure. Upon its discovery, SCP-892 was found containing a single .xls save file titled ESO%HF-V6.31.01 hereby designated SCP-892-1. This save file is impossible to delete, copy, rename, export, modify, or overwrite in any shape or form. Although creating additional .xls files is possible, none have thus far shown similar anomalous properties. Contained within each cell of SCP-892-1 is a string of information written in plain text English. Each cell, as well as the contained string, is believed to correspond to a currently living individual. This string can contain information as mundane as what that individual ate for breakfast, their occupation, or their shoe size, to information as personal as their first sexual encounter, a thought they had that morning, or their greatest phobia. These cells refresh daily, displaying a different string of information each time. Should a recorded individual die, the corresponding cell will, upon the next refresh, display their name and time and cause of death. At the time of discovery, SCP-892-1 was found to contain approximately 84,500 by 84,500 cells, slightly over 7 billion. Despite the belief that each cell corresponds to a single person, this amount was greater than Earth's estimated population at the time. Additional rows and columns have appeared regularly since then. The rate of growth slightly greater than that of Earth's population. Cell A-1 suggests that SCP-892 itself is not the source of SCP-892-1's information, but rather is connected to a server designated SCP-892-2. How SCP-892 connects to SCP-892-2 is currently unknown. Cell A-2 suggests that upon entering a password, the higher functions of SCP-892-1 may be accessed. Cells refresh daily at 12 o'clock a.m. pacific time. Cells of interest. The following is by no means an exhaustive list. For a complete list of cells examined so far, please consult attached document L-892A. A-1 consistently displays status slash secure, server data, 32%, ping, 12 ppm updated. Do not save to server, OS. A-2 consistently displays password required for full access. G-231 by O5 Order Z-26 Updates suggest individual plans to assassinate Dr. Researcher has been placed in protective custody. A-H-423 Solid Black B-W-10,841 suspected to be a known member of the chaos insurgency. EF-15 EF-16 AER-50502 Updates display subsequent lines from Chuck McKenzie's predatory instincts. CDE-55 Consistently blank. DYZ-1 suspected to be Mark Begich, Alaskan U.S. Senator. EPS 50,028 Consistently displays data pertaining to abortion. EZA 75,081 Individual believed to be Schizophrenic. FLD 3,205 Data expunged. FZT 60,670 suspected to be an uncontained SCP. GAR 9,462 Consistently displays full access required. HAR 9,461 Consistently displays full access required. HKR 682 Symbols displayed do not correlate to any known on Earth. SUSPECTED IOI 4,959 Updates display the names of different Greek mythological heroes. MOS 1325 Consistently displays 404 Individual not found. MOS 1326 Consistently displays 909 Individual out of range. PYK 8,888 Suspected to be serial killer Data Expunged. Whose death sentence was carried out in 19 OXO 24 Suspected to be However, updates suggest individual is a pedophile. QUU 78,002 Suspected to be SCP RKL 72,727 Suspected to be the Canadian Prime Minister. RZJ 202 Updates display thinly veiled threats toward the foundation and foundation personnel. TTC 50 Suspected corrupt cell. Updates demonstrate self-awareness. Better often nonsensical or contradictory. ZIE 66,667 AABT 38,545 Confirmed as Dr. Researcher has been detained and used for testing with SCP-892. ABWS 80,323 Updates display subsequent digits of PI to the 105th place before resetting. ABXA 20,468 Consistently displays death string. Name, time, and cause different each time. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-891, California Field, right now. For more for the complete course, watch this playlist.


spot. So yeah, we had to talk on Monday. Good. Yeah, that's great. Steve, he's active in the community in Poppy Park. Oh, good. Good. It'll be nice to have someone from that area actually on cab. So yeah. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, and Chris is set to come to the 28th meeting. Oh, he is? Yeah. So do I need to give him time on the agenda? Well, I mean, he could be part of opening, but then he'd only have three minutes or something. So it might be better to give him some actual time, don't you think? Yeah. Okay. Yes. I feel like it's very important that he imparts his wisdom and enthusiasm. Okay, experience. So I'm letting Magali know, which is man, that's gonna be rough for her. She's not gonna be able to be there. So we'll see what she decides to do. It's okay. So we do have just to let you guys know we do have a full subcommittee now Damian emailed me earlier today. He can't make it tonight. But he will be joining the subcommittee. Um, so when Vince comes back, we will have a full subcommittee. That's great. How did how's the other subcommittee doing? We haven't met because of my school schedule. But there's only two people on that subcommittee. So it is not about your school schedule. You don't have to even mention that. Oh, about two people. It's about all people. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true. But I will have to find in the fall have to figure out these meeting times for subcommittees because I will not be able to do it with school. So I have to figure that out. All right. How long do we want to give the next member? We all hold out till 6 10. Yeah, does that work? Okay. Thank you. Yeah. I know that there's a lot of traffic and more so it's just like in this past week, I feel like the traffic has been a little bit more impacted and crazier. I don't know how you guys experience it, but it just seems more different like at odds. And I don't ever my house. I'm always here. My daughter actually her boyfriend lives in Windsor and every now and again, you know, they're driving back and forth. But she said that the last week, there seem to be a lot of accidents. Yeah, that's what I'm feeling. I mean, we do live near a major intersection. So would it be allowed if I share something that I heard today at the mayor's meeting? We're not, we don't have a quorum and we haven't started meeting. So it's fine. So it's just like sharing like grade school. Keith might already know this, but you know, the county was looking to come downtown, which they're still looking to come downtown potentially. And I had heard about the one site right there between or next to the post office that that parking lot right there, and maybe incorporating in the central library. But what I hadn't heard about, which I'm very excited about, because I thought this was a good idea long ago is potentially the Sears building. Yeah, and everything sears and in the mall. So they're just doing their study analysis. But so who knows where that'll go. But even the potential of that and just looking at it as a viable solution, building on there, that's pretty cool. I always thought that the whole mall could use a boost like that. I know that there's been a lot of conversations around what to do with the mall, like in the downtown specific plan work that had happened. And also general plan update, I'm sure it's come up in conversations. But it seems like for last couple years, at least, that's been a topic of conversation amongst a lot of people. Yeah, the city. But it's the first time I've heard the county. Yeah, publicly, that that's been allowed to be said out loud. So that was that was pretty, pretty cool. And so yeah, and kind of tying into that city is doing a downtown station area station area historic resource evaluating. So I just put in our engagement site for that. So we finally launched our digital engagement platform. And this is one of the first projects we put on there. So there's an opportunity you guys, please feel free to check it out. Play around with the tools. I believe with this project, you can you can play there's an interactive map. So you can use the pins on the map, you can post ideas on the virtual idea, post it, you can share stories about either your favorite place downtown or a real special place downtown and why it's special to you. It's really cool. Like what you could do here, you could ask questions about the project. There's also a guest book, which is pretty cool. Oh, all right. Yes. Anyway, so check it out when you get a chance. There she is. I can feel Candace huffing and puffing to get here. I can feel that I can feel it. You're here. Take a breath. You're good. You're on mute too, if you want. Sorry, I'm late. My hospital just called my nephew's in the Air Force and he's got COVID and his wife has COVID and they have a newborn. So we're trying to figure out how to get the baby here. Sorry. Yeah, it's okay. Oh my gosh, that's a lot. It's a lot for you to handle. Yeah. Yeah. Grandma's working on it and getting his parents involved. So hopefully they'll figure it out. Yeah. Good. Yeah, I'm just gonna take a whole team to do that. Yeah. Yes, definitely. And I'm sure it'll be quite expensive to get a flight out tonight or in the morning. Yeah. That's rough, especially with the newborn. Yeah. Yeah, she's pretty little. She's three months old. Thank you. So I'm sorry I'm late, but I'm present. I'm here. I'm focused. Awesome. All right. Well, thank you for being here, everybody. So we don't we don't really have a facilitator for this meeting. So whoever wants to facilitate and then this group will eventually need to decide who will be the facilitator moving forward. So it could be a subcommittee chair, or it could just be a designated facilitator, however you guys want to do it. So we want to facilitate. Keith, do you want to facilitate? You're good at it. Sure. I'd be happy to. All right, I'll call this meeting in order at 611 p.m. on the agenda. Let's do a roll call. Remind me, do I go through a name or do they No, no, we have all members present except for member tornado who's not here. One, two, three, four member Harper and member square will be joining us next month. So I'm not going to count this absence against him just because he joined today. So but he'll join next month. All right, and then public comments. Do we have anyone here for public comment? Anyone on the line? Let's see here. It doesn't look like we have anybody in attendance from the public. Hi, there are no hands raised for public comment. Thank you. That brings us to new business. 3.1 overview of subcommittee that's Danielle. Yes, one second here so I can make my note. There we go. Okay. I'm going to share my screen here. Maybe everybody see this right here. Okay, cool. So I think chair graves and member Roberts are pretty familiar with this, but for member Sefi, Steffi and member Richardson. This is the community community empowerment subcommittee, we call it the empowerment subcommittee, strategic objectives. And most of them the subcommittee has worked on in the past. So implementing neighbor fest, that's one that was done in 2019, assisting the office of community engagement in implementing that program. But as I mentioned earlier this afternoon in our other meeting, neighbor fest has been suspended due to the pandemic. So we will be talking about that in just a little bit because it looks like we will be able to move forward with implementing it next year. So I'll get to that in just a moment. Other objectives are creating a civic engagement academy proactively attending neighborhood meetings. And then it says new, but we've been working on this most of this year is assisting our department and creating a series of civic 101 videos. So actually, I believe we started on that last year. And so members of the subcommittee actually work together, put together some content for those videos. And that content actually went into not only creating the videos, but also into the citizen guidebook to participation. Quick note on that, everyone, the draft of the guidebook is complete. So it's being reviewed right now by the city attorney and the city clerk. And then at the end of this month, we will be sending it out to all cab members to review the final draft, as well as holding a series of focus groups with community members to review it as well, and see if it's easy enough to understand, it contains everything that they would want to know about participating in their local government. So more to come on that as we get there. But the Civic 101 videos, I'm also excited to let everybody know is we have just finished writing the scripts for that. Magali is in the process of reviewing those and then we'll be sending them over to FDA productions where they will start putting those those into action. And so we may need some actors. So I'll be reaching back out to you guys to help with either acting out scenes or doing voiceovers. I know member Roberts had mentioned that he was interested and I think member Steffi had also mentioned that she might be interested in doing some of that. So you'll be hearing from me soon in regards to voiceovers and maybe acting. I know that we have one or two scripts that will involve the mayor and some of the council members too. So I'm really looking forward to getting those going. But so that's basically what the subcommittee has been working on since last year. I'm hoping eventually either this year or early next year we can get back to proactively attending neighborhood meetings as things start to open up again. And people are able to or neighborhood groups actually are able to hold their their neighborhood meetings in person again. In the meantime, Magali would really like some help around planning for Neighbor Fest 2022, getting your ideas. I will in just a moment go over what Neighbor Fest is for those of you who did not get a chance to participate in 2019 and don't know much about it. But before I jump into Neighbor Fest, are there any questions about the work that the subcommittee has is doing? Question, comment, Danielle. As far as neighborhood meetings, I keep hearing us having a little bit of a roadblock because we're waiting for them to happen. They are happening. And so there's a number of neighborhoods that are meeting still virtually. There's some that are getting together in parks. So and or even having other activities, you know, and other groups that are kind of hybrid of neighborhoods. Like at the beginning of June, there was the and I'm forgetting which what the name of it is but the said like met with council member Victoria Fleming and Santa Rosa together. So I don't I would hope that we could kind of fast-track that and get ourselves aligned with some of those meetings and really get in touch with folks and and be a little bit more proactive. Yeah, definitely. That's I hope that you guys will take that on. However, I really think the what needs to happen is finding out which neighborhoods are meeting right now, how they're meeting in person or virtually. And when when those meetings are happening, you know, dates, times, etc. So, and it's I also want to make it clear too that it's not just this group that's that's attending meetings. The hope is to that the whole cab will will participate in attending neighborhood meetings, especially for those that are assigned to various areas. That way they can stay connected with the area that they've been appointed to. So or the neighborhood that you live in, for example. So and I had compiled that list and I think at one point there was some talk of it coming to cab and then either the cab eating got canceled or something happened and I wasn't able to share it. But I do have a pretty good list already started. And what I'll do is I'll kind of dust it off a little bit and revisit it and then bring it to our meeting on the 28th. Okay, cool. Yeah, I just I simply put out a little something to folks that I knew. And then I also put out something on Facebook and the response was really positive. There was there was quite a few that are still going have been going. I'm also thinking to we have the digital engagement site now, we can create a neighborhood page that that can be like, you know, where neighborhoods can go and share what they're working on and share their their meeting times. So I'm going to put that down for myself too. I've been thinking about that too. Just not just for cab, which is outside of that too. So I'll I'll go and put that together. That'd be great. Okay. Any other further questions or comments about overview and subcommittee? Okay, then let's go to 3.2. Finding for NeighborFest 2022. Okay, that's going right back to you. All right, so I'm gonna actually share. Oops. Hang on a second here. Sorry about that. Get to NeighborFest. Okay. Hopefully, you can see the NeighborFest website here. So you can get to this by going to srcity.org slash NeighborFest. What you will find here on the page is what NeighborFest is. And the information on here was really centered around our 2019 pilot project, which was so the neighborhood engagement or empowerment network from City of San Francisco helped us create our program. So NeighborFest started in San Francisco. And really, the project is centered around bringing neighbors together. So neighborhoods together to get to know one another and build that social cohesion and social connectedness and also prepare prepare for a disaster at the same time. And it is modeled after not only the the program in San Francisco, but also FEMA's whole community concept of preparedness as a shared responsibility. And so you can check out all of those different sites here on the website. Our pilot program was funded through the Community Foundation of Sonoma County, the Health Care Foundation of Northern Sonoma County and do the United Way of the Wine Country in 2019. That was one time funds. And so what the CAB decided to do was make it part of their strategic plan and use CAB grant funds to provide money to neighborhoods that want to do NeighborFest. And so in the CAB grant program, they can apply for funds to do NeighborFest. There's also a different tier where they do just NeighborFest. There's a different tier where they can do both NeighborFest and a community improvement project together. And we don't have to talk about that tonight. But that is an option. So there's two different funding tiers once we get back to to doing NeighborFest and, you know, doing it in person. I won't show the video tonight, but there is a nice little video clip. Channel 7 News came out to one of our NeighborFest in 2019 and did a nice little story on that. So again, NeighborFest is a block party that offers neighbors the chance to come together, have fun and build a stronger connected more connected community. And the reason why we decided to do NeighborFest, it was an idea that came out of the 2017 wildfires. We heard a lot of people say that during the wildfires that year that they really weren't sure what to do. They weren't sure if anyone was going to help them come to help them evacuate. And many people relied on their neighbors to help them do that. And so we found this program and thought what a great idea to implement in Santa Rosa, so that not only are people getting prepared for a disaster, but they're getting to know their neighbors a little bit more so that they can rely on one another during either another wildfire or a disaster. So NeighborFest aims to strengthen social cohesion or connectedness, resilience and prepared neighborhoods for disaster. And this is the big one research has shown that more the more connected neighbors are to each other, the stronger their resilience is after an emergency. So I mentioned the pilot program, we had eight neighborhoods involved in that we engaged with over 1200 people from all eight neighborhoods. So we have a final report that is available for everyone to read right here on the website. So feel free to take a look at that when you get a chance. We also developed a toolkit to help neighborhoods plan for for their event. So it's available in English and in Spanish, we will most likely have to update this for next year. So my team will work on that. It includes things like how do I, how do I put together a block party? What permits do I need? What what kind of roles and responsibilities can people have on the planning team? What kind of food should I serve, you know, things like that. So take a look at that. It's a really helpful tool for neighborhoods to have. So basically how NeighborFest runs, we provide them with the funding $2,500 for just the single NeighborFest event or $5,000 if they do the NeighborFest event plus the community improvement project. They do all of the planning for their events. It's all in them to decide what they want to have there as far as food, entertainment, different community booths. And what we do in return is the city of Santa Rosa comes out, provides information on evacuation routes, emergency alerts, notifications. We sign people up for SOCo Alert, talk to people about the differences between SOCo Alert and NXL and why it's important to sign up for SOCo Alert. And we also do, the cab actually worked a lot on this in 2019 with our department as we do a Map Your Resilient Bill activity. So we bring in a large map of the neighborhood and neighborhood members can come up to the table and the cab members lead them through an activity, so a mapping activity. So they're looking at it and they talk about where they can find fresh water if for some reason their water gets turned off, where they can evacuate to if they have to evacuate. And what the best evacuation route might be. A meeting place that's nearby. Somebody has a generator that they might be able to share for just a small little bit. Who are those people that might have that resource? Who has medical training and where's the nearest hospital? So it's a really nice activity that brings the neighborhood together to map that out. They get the map at the end of the event and then if they want to continue working on disaster preparedness for their neighborhood, then we link them to staff at the fire department that can help them do that. And then we do the evaluation of the program as well. So again, most of the planning for the event itself is done by the neighborhood and we just come in and bring our resources. We also partner with American Red Cross. They come in and do individual disaster preparedness as well as some first aid demonstrations. We also have some mental health resources for for the neighborhoods. And the library came out in 2019 and I know that was something that they wanted to continue partnering with us on. And so we bring in those community partners that want to be involved also. So with that, I will go ahead and stop sharing and then answer any questions that you may have. Anyone have questions? I have a question. Sure. I'm just curious. And I'm new at this. What is like my responsibility to initiate one of these things to happen, either in my neighborhood or in any neighborhood, because I'm an at large member or they marketed to from the city and they raise their hand and say, I want to do it. Yeah. So it's tied together with a community improvement grant program. And so what will happen there is once we are given the the thumbs up to go ahead and have neighbors for next year, then we will update the the cab grant application and then in your outreach that you do for the cab grant program. You will let, you know, say your neighborhood know that this is an opportunity that's coming up that they can apply for. And then sharing it, you know, we will market it as well, like we do for other parts of the the grant program. So it's it's kind of like what we talked about earlier today at the meeting that we had. It's we rely on you to do outreach on your own to your neighborhoods and your community contacts. And then we do the traditional, you know, city communication channels to push that out. Okay, sounds good. And the ones that did it in 2019 have even in contact saying they want to do it again. Yes. So the following year 2020 is when we opened it up through the cab grant program and we had two neighborhoods that participated in 2019 apply through the cab grant program to do that. And as well know, you know, pandemic hit. So what they decided to do is just do their community improvement project piece of it. Instead of doing the in person neighbor fest event. But they have expressed interest in once we open it back up to doing those again. However, really like to see other neighborhoods participate that haven't gotten a chance yet either. Right, makes sense. And also the eight neighborhoods that isn't at all correlated with the city council districts, right? No, with with the pilot program, we knew that we would have more success if these were already organized neighborhoods. And so most of them were neighborhood associations are already standing community groups like the Roseland community building group. South Park had their own group. So, you know, that we went through more organized neighborhoods, but it can be open to any neighborhood group, whether it be, you know, like an association or or just, you know, a non formal group informal group. Okay, thanks. Yep. Last question. Sure. Um, is are we still going to have just community improvement grants, improvement program grants projects? I get the name mixed up. I know we're still going to have just because I know that we have neighborhood fast coming back in 2022. We have the hybrid with the neighborhood fast with a project. You get more money. But are we going to have just a project? I think that's a very good question. And it is actually something that cab needs to decide because right now, the resolution states that it's neighbor, it's just neighbor fast with the project. So if you want to go back to doing also just a project, we're going to have to update that resolution, which is easy to do. And then I'm sure the council will be fine doing that. We had wanted to give the community opportunity to really embrace neighbor fast. But at this point, now that we've been through a pandemic, I think that we need to be a little bit more open with our options. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's also kind of a gateway to maybe doing a neighborhood fast, you know, for some of those neighborhoods that maybe we haven't connected with yet or they haven't been engaged yet. So and maybe maybe the amount is a little bit different or something like that. But I think it's a great a great way to kind of start the process toward there. Also, we also in our listening sessions last summer heard from some community groups that neighbor fest just is not it's just not for them. That's not where their focus they want their focus to be. So I think we should be a little bit more flexible in the options that we have to offer to the community so that, you know, this is an accessible inclusive grant program for everyone. Yeah. Great. We'll keep that on tab. Thanks. So one, one of the other things I forgot to mention, actually there are two. So when we initially planned neighbor fest, we we obviously started small because we wanted to evaluate just how neighbor fest went and, you know, participation from both the neighborhoods and our community organizations. After that pilot program, we felt that it would be a great opportunity to invite any of our city departments that wanted to participate in these events to come out and table because this is a great way to come connect with the community. I call it like it's almost like a mobile city hall or city hall is coming to the neighborhoods. So that's one option that I would like to keep open for next year. The other thing that we are working on here in our department. So everybody is familiar with the multicultural roots project, I believe I hope so. And so we found out that the Sonoma County Museum is actually doing something almost completely identical to what we're doing except it's in video format. And so we've decided to partner with them to to basically bring all of our resources together. They can help us push our stories out even to an even bigger audience and then we can help fill in some of the gaps where they might not have enough staff to go out and do all of the interviews. So we are looking at doing a couple of things with them. One is to help them with our video project. So we're still working out the logistics but basically our VISTAs and we will have a couple of interns this fall as well. We'll take that video equipment and go out into the community and do video interviews so that we can share those videos through our city channels but also the museum will be highlighting those videos there as well. We'll also be participating in the Dia de los Martos event this fall at the museum. So we're working with them on that and we're going to use that time hopefully to just do some recruitment for this and see if there's anybody who attends the exhibit at the museum if they'd be interested in participating in the interview interviews that we're doing. The other part of it, so we do the interviews and then we share them through our city communication channels and the museum shares them. The executive director of the museum learned about a program. I believe it was from Toronto where they also used VISTAs to go out to various neighborhoods and do these interviews. But then at the end of the project, they held various block parties to share the videos and to share the stories. And so I thought what a neat way this would be to incorporate that project into NeighborFest as well, if that's something that the neighborhood would like to have part of their event. Again, because the neighborhood they're in charge of the event and the planning and whatnot. But we could also include a table to talk to people about the project, recruit people to be a part of these interviews. And if anyone wants to be interviewed the day of to sit down and be interviewed on video with one of our VISTAs. So just two ideas I wanted to throw out there that we could make available to the neighborhoods if they wanted to take those on. So yeah, I just wanted to add those to your different options here as we start to plan out what NeighborFest is going to look like moving forward. I really like the idea of being flexible for the neighborhoods that don't see a traditional NeighborFest being ideal for them. So I would love to see some neighborhoods be very creative and go outside the box, even if it's not exactly a traditional NeighborFest. I had a question you mentioned working with the museum. Is there going to be any tabling for CAB members? They've tabling opportunities for CAB members. I remember we did the market and I was just wondering if there's going to be anything like that. Yeah, we're still not 100% sure yet what the rest of this year is going to look like for city staff. Right now, we are still not allowed to participate in any big community events or fund any big community events. And however, I believe in the next couple of weeks, we are going to have some some availability to do that. But as long as it has a focus on disaster preparedness, so essentially public safety staff will be allowed to resume their community meetings, for example, like an Oakmont when they go out and do their disaster preparedness presentations with neighborhood groups. We could join in, in some of those meetings, the fire department is always open to having us tag along with them. It just depends on space, you know, what the size of the meeting is and how big their their meeting space is going to be. So that might be a potential to, you know, have a little table off to the side or a chance to just give a quick blurb about the CAB grant program and neighbor fest coming up next year. But as far as other events go, like, I don't I don't think the market's happening this year. I could be wrong, but I haven't heard of. Yeah, I haven't heard of anything. Oh, there's the whole opening out in downtown and there's movies on Wednesdays. Yeah, there's I mean, there's a whole slew of stuff that's happening. So I'm subtle that you said that there's no permits because there's a slew of things. No, no, no, no, not permits. We can't participate as cities. Yeah, I think permitting is slowly starting to happen, but we as staff can't participate anything. So if there's something like the opening out and the movies and stuff like that in Courthouse Square wherever they are, if you guys feel comfortable with having a table out there, I'm fine with that. I just am not. I'd have to get special permission, basically from a colleague to be out there, which she's pretty flexible with. And I think she would probably be OK with joining us as well. It just we have to be we have to be a little bit cautious. I think we'd have to get special permission is basically what I'm trying to say. So isn't the city kind of part of open out? No, we are. Yeah. All right. But again, not supposed to be like out like you're not really opening out. No, no, that's all. No joke. It's so confusing. I know. You know what it really is? I'll tell you guys what it is. It's Kalosha requirements and policies. We have to make sure that we are abiding by Kalosha guidelines. So because if we're not getting into a lot of trouble, yeah, that's what we're waiting for. We're waiting for those guidelines to come out because we thought we were also going to be back in the office this month and we're not. So yeah, we're just waiting. And ideally, it sounds like just to piggy back off of what Keith was asking. To me, it sounds like it's always ideal to have staff like you wouldn't send cab by themselves to an emergency table. Right. We really need the backup expertise and the ability to answer those nuanced questions. Yeah, I'm going to make a note for myself to chat with Magali about how we would go about. I mean, because if we're out in Courthouse Square, like, for example, when people are out at restaurants, it's not like we're gathering in large groups or having large groups of people come gather around us.  And then those who attend a movie, for example. So yeah, let me see what what we can do on our end about that. So because I know, I mean, there's quite a few of us that are like, can we please start talking to people in person, please? So yeah. Okay. I think I helped us get away from neighborhood fast, but were there any other questions about neighborhood? Okay, so let's go to future agenda items. Does anyone have topics they want to see on?  So what types of what do you want to work on? Do you want to report back on? Neighbor neighborhood meeting attendance or I want to make the most out of this one hour that we have together. So we probably want neighbor, neighbor fast and the system guidebook and civic one on on the on the agenda is really okay. I want to talk about the cab and the committee structure, but that might be something for the whole cab to discuss rather than the committee. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. The as we approve the community improvement project grants that I remember previously, even though it didn't happen because of COVID that we were going to kind of be one or two, I think two cab members were going to be assigned to each one to kind of maybe be not facilitators, but just on, you know, they're to kind of be a presence and and maybe this it seems kind of similar to neighborhood fest implementing neighborhood fest. So maybe that's something that we need to chat about here because after in August, we will have approved the grants. So maybe that's we need to kind of come to a resolution about like how how are we going to then have to be a presence out at these projects that are that are going to be happening. OK. Yes, I remember that. It's like basically like project liaisons, you're the liaison to the yeah. It's hard for me to to verbalize it because it was a concert when I heard about it and then we didn't really get to implement. So, you know, it also helps me too because you're helping provide that technical assistance to the groups, which helps me not get bombarded all the time by groups, but it keeps you connected to the community, too. Right. And it helps build those relationships with these groups. And so hopefully they come back another two years or so to reapply or something. So, yeah. And you're saying that. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. So are you saying maybe our next meeting or next committee meeting we each get assigned or choose one or two of the projects that get approved and we're the liaison looking forward? Is that does that timing work? Is that what your hope was? Yeah, or either by then we will know how many are approved and and we can come together as a subcommittee and decide is that something that the whole cab then is involved in. So we would actually then present it to the cab in August. The August meeting and say, OK, now this is this is what we're looking for and kind of have a better definition of what the liaisons would do at those projects and what we're what we would be responsible for so that all members of the cab would somehow be involved in that. Or have the opportunity at least to be involved. So it wouldn't just be our subcommittee would be the entire cab that would have an opportunity. OK, I know for me I'd like to have the object like I'm new at cab and I'm new at all this and, you know, with COVID and then with the not having the forums, I feel like I'm not really engaged yet. So if I can get one or two of those projects and Lincoln with them, I would feel like I'd made a step forward and it's it would just kind of, I don't know, for me, it sounds like a really good way to get engaged when it's been challenging lately to be engaged. Yeah. I feel so bad for you, you know, new members that joined during the pandemic, because this is like not how we do things at all. It's like, well, that means there's nowhere to go but up, right? Yes, exactly. We're usually always in person, always at events. It's yeah, it's this has been rough. I think also to piggyback on that item too, maybe the group can talk about an outreach plan for the grants. So that cab feels that they have a little bit more ownership over the outreach as well, because that was, I think, one of the reasons why we only got six applications this time. And just to let you know, I did mention this today in the grant meeting, but some of our violence prevention staff and some of our VISTAs are actually going out to some of the neighborhoods that are meeting currently due to violence in their neighborhoods. They are providing that information to these neighborhoods about the next grant cycle. And so hopefully we'll have a little bit of some more people applying or more groups applying as well as the organizations that the partnership works with too. So our hope that we while we do this, we create more interest in the program for the next round. Hopefully you guys will have like 50 applications to choose from this. Rather than six, I'm just kidding, but that has happened before. OK, outreach plan. So, yeah, it sounds like an outreach plan and a liaison plan would be things that we can talk about. OK, cool. And then Keith, we can definitely talk in this sub committee about Cab and the community structure, maybe start the conversation here and then and then bring it to the full cab. If you find that helpful or we could do it at the broader cab meeting. Oh, yeah, either way. But yeah, I was just. Since we have gone down from three committees to two and one of them is not really there. I was wondering if we could just take a look at the structure and maybe maybe we don't need committees. Maybe we need more committees. I don't even know. I just wanted to just think about it and discuss it. The first thing I don't know more committees, but. But no, that is a great. Yeah, that is that is something that the candidates talk about. So, OK, and the other thing I wanted to discuss with it is and I brought this up before it might have been a few years ago. But yeah, just the committees bonding together. Just I just feel like if our committee could get together, if the board could get together and have a better relationship with each other, I feel like we care more about the work we do on cab and which members would show up more. Members would contribute more. Yeah, I just want to talk about how we can improve. Morale or relationship or bonding, whatever. You need a board retreat. But then we have to open up. Still have to be open to the public, though. So let's figure out how to do that. I think it will. All right. It will. You know, it's good. Some of that.  There was some mention because I brought it up today at the mayor's meeting, but the. Need for space. So I put that on Chris's radar and there has been, I guess, some look at the Finlay Center or the community services. That's probably you, right? And but Chris, Chris also said, you know, you know, there's there is the potential of using the city council chamber. So I don't know his creative mind was at work, how that would work. But, you know, in that hybrid fashion, because you could sit some in and we could be at different offices on computers, too. So I'm I'm I'm totally I'm completely jumping forward. That was not what he said. That was like my creative mind, taking what he said and kind of moving it. So don't say, Chris, you said this. He just said, yeah, the city council chambers and I thought, oh, well, they do it like this. So. I mean, you know, that's a lot of staff energy, too. But no, I'm only laughing at the Finlay idea, because literally that would be the cab coming full circle, because the cab started meeting at the Finlay originally. And then we moved to the Office of Community Engagement, because it was such a great space. But now, because we need more space to make this work in person, I mean, going back to Finlay would be just makes me laugh. Yeah. Well, I think the the mention was from the Community Community Services Board. And they and their chair said that the staff have been looking to outfit the Pearson Senior Center or senior wing. For them. So it can be outfitted for them. It could potentially be outfitted for us, except for they meet the same exact day as we do. And they're running. I know we're not getting too far off topic, but we are looking at the UFO as a potential meeting space, because it's such a large there's three separate conference rooms that open into one. And so that that'll probably work. But, you know, there's also there's other spaces in in Finlay as well that might work. So OK. So I have I have standing agenda items, Neighbor Fest and Civic 101 videos. But then Cabin Community Structure, the committees, you know, Keith had mentioned the committees and all cab opportunities for bonding and then liaison plan and an outreach plan for the grant program. So I'm good. Miss. Just one quick thing to add. I want to build on to what Keith was saying. My first committee meeting, but that we're empowering, we're empowerment. And I thought we need to empower the entire cab to show up at each meeting and get engaged. And that's kind of what Keith was alluding to. So however I can help or this team can help because that seems to be a real issue since I've just been a member since since February. But maybe that's our role because we're empowering, right? Yeah, great. And and just so so Keith and Beth and Candice and everybody knows that's part of why I invited our mayor to speak at our next meeting. So partly because I hope that by seeing on the agenda that the mayor is going to be there at on our July 28th meeting would bring about a greater attendance and more enthusiasm. Also, Chris is very infectious and gregarious and and has a lot of great knowledge. He's been on cab before that's his his committee or his board that he was on prior to being elected. And he has a lot of great knowledge to share with us. So we need a quorum on July 28th in order to see through these grants. And to me, that's extremely important because we need to show have a good show for the community. They have put their trust in us and they've put their energy and their time into filling out those applications coming up with great ideas following through. This is the first of our quarter system with the community improvement project grants. So I feel like I feel great responsibility and imparting that on to Chris Rogers. He he agreed and he's going to be there to talk about just the importance of cab because sometimes, you know, it might feel a little intangible. And and and that that wasn't untrue prior to. The covid and the pandemic, but certainly during covid and the pandemic, it has become more true that it that it's hard to feel those tangible moments where we're engaged and we're empowering, you know, where we're doing the community work that we that we wanted to do when we signed up. So I'm hoping that that this meeting coming up is going to be a great start at a turning point for that. Yeah. Thank you.  No, don't do that. Don't make me go there because it's wasted on the people that show up. So I know what I'm saying. I know, no, I would never do that. But really, I have. I have. I'm being optimistic, like I really because this is such an important meeting for the grant program, like I'm I'm really optimistic that things will go well.  So if you see that, don't get annoyed. Just OK, there's her daily reminder. That's fine. For any other board, I would reply all and try to encourage them as well. But I'm allowed to do that. Yeah, yeah. I really appreciate everybody here for for continuing to show up.  She is I can I can feel it still. Candice, you're, you know, still whirling about what is going on right now. And I wish I could jump through the screen and give you a hug. So I appreciate you being here. And I I also want to acknowledge that we're just a couple of minutes away from seven o'clock so we can get out of here on time, too. But if Keith is facilitating. Yes, any any other item items to discuss for future meetings? No, then it looks like we're at number five adjournment. Thanks, everyone. Thank you, everybody. We're good. Yeah, do it real quick. Do a motion for adjournment. We need a second. Second. Thank you. All right. Thank you both. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor. Great. Thank you, everybody. Candice, all the best. Thank you. Take care, everyone. Bye. Bye.


Have you ever tried a smoothie made with millet? If not, you should definitely try this finger millet smoothie. Welcome to the 10th episode of All Things Millet. This smoothie is super delicious and makes for a healthy start to your day. Firstly, cook the ragi or finger millet with some water until it turns into a thick glossy paste. Now add it into a blender along with banana, soaked almonds, dates, curd, vanilla extract and some water. Blend this well and pour it into a glass with some ice and soaked chia seeds. Finally, garnish it with some chopped almonds or cashews and ginger.


What is up? Welcome to Wednesdays Alive Q&A normally Every two o'clock central standard time Dylan and myself and some of the team are actually going to be on a plane this afternoon Literally in the air while the show would have happened at two o'clock So today they can even see your new haircut on the side, bro But today we're doing that 1130 central standard time right now So I want you to ask your questions. You have questions We want you to ask them ahead of time or ask them right now So we're gonna address those dooker as always gonna ask them. What's up Diana? What's up Matt?  We appreciate you being on YouTube We appreciate you being on Facebook if you're on Facebook make sure you share this thing if you're on YouTube Make sure you give a thumbs up make sure you're subscribed and make sure you're commenting on both it will answer questions They've been asked previously But also if you have a question today, make sure that you put that in comments below Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for watching let's jump in as Bailey builds a super computer in there in the new studio If you call a lead and they say they're not interested and hang up during your intro Would you go doorknock them? 100% because they don't even know why you're calling if they hang up during your intro I've had people say they weren't interested and I've doorknocked them and actually still made a sell so I I Definitely would doorknock them. I would doorknock people that didn't let you in people and people that didn't answer the phone I just I just I definitely definitely would because I'm telling you they're gonna forget that they spoke to you They didn't they said not interested prematurely. They didn't even know what what was going on. What was gonna happen? Not interested early in a call means Zilch they say that to everyone even me Do's no soliciting signs apply when you're doorknocking leads Larry Wood says will you and the team be in Vegas? Absolutely. Does no soliciting apply when you're doorknocking Doorknocking leads when you're doorknocking leads No, no because they requested information. Yeah. Yeah, so when I called when I called doorknock I'm a little more picky about that But when I'm doorknocking a lead and they request information, then that's okay, right? I mean that's perfectly. Okay, I mean because what's happening is you're not soliciting You're getting back to them with something that they ask you to come see them about and that's the way you should look at it because it's the truth really good question though What do you do if you doorknock an age lead and they say they've recently purchased a policy? If you doorknock an age lead and they said that they've recently purchased a policy I Want to get in Perfect. I'm already here. I want to make sure that you have the new updated information Let's do this. Give me 60 seconds And if I can't help you can kick me out should we sit at the couch or the table? So I still want to get in like like most people most people think this is like a misconception in the insurance business They already own something if their berries burials already covered if they already have a life insurance policy If everything's taken care of they haven't had a life insurance policy since birth all these things that we can't help them That's the farthest from the truth. I actually prefer And I'm gonna say this slow because most people will never believe this I say I started to say a lot because of this. I prefer that they already own a policy I already prefer that they already have coverage because they bought it before they'll buy it again They're used to paying for it. They'll keep paying for it and it's just easier Matt. Say hello, bro We got you we got we got Matt on video today, man. I love that. It's a rare sight man. That's awesome How can I encourage a lead to make a decision when they're unsure and saying they need to think about it? Is Greg Broly really on here or is that or is it or is Facebook messing with me, bro? What's up, Broly? Say that again. I'm sorry. I got I got I'm a big I'm friends with Greg man. That's cool How can I encourage a lead to make a decision when they're unsure and saying they need to think about it? Oh Okay, couple a couple couple ideas and I've tried this what's up, Derek I've tried this was specific agents in general when someone says hey, you know what Cody? I need to think about it Excellent. I respect that Unfortunately, we have a no-call-back policy You have everything that you need to make an informed decision today Why don't you just take it and And they generally do now I like to finish with a question that works That's worked several times people will do people think they won't work. I promise it works I've had a I've had agents that have heard it used it it worked and then came on video and told us it worked But then they take it a step further if you wanted to say this I've said it before and it works and it's true that hey you Unfortunately, we have a no-call-back policy because we've had people that said they were gonna think about it They never did they passed away and their family was mad at us So to alleviate that concern and to make sure that we're doing our job and Helping you the best way we're supposed to we have a no-call-back policy You need it. You want it. You can afford it. I recommend that we go ahead and see if we can get you approved sound fair enough And I promise it works. It really really works like if there's anything to think about it Have I had people think about it and then buy later? Yes, but the percentages are so small that I'm gonna go for a one-call-close every single time It's so low. I'm talking one percent two percent. It's so low that that I don't even mess with it anymore I just I just go for it what Greg Brumley says it works, dude, you know it man What can I gain from networking? What can I gain from networking? You can gain some organic simple business that comes in from networking. I'm not a big fan of networking I'm not even a great networker like I'm not I come across like I'm like a social dude I'm actually kind of not. I just I don't like network networking events, but I Know I know an agent right now that gets hundreds of thousands of dollars per year Because they're a part of a networking group that crushes it So I mean yeah, you can get but if you got to do it properly networking doesn't work if you don't work What I mean by this most people they join a networking group and they're like hey Networking groups don't work for me networking groups only work when you give referrals first That's backwards You're there to give referrals when you give referrals people want to start giving you referrals So instead of instead of being selfish as Ray Lewis said be self-less Most people want to be selfish and come out and say hey, I tried I went to one meeting two meetings three meetings four meetings I never got a referral you probably won't that quick it takes time so What is one thing you did that took your business to the next level? Oh You know what well this this actually is true. I mean there's better answers, but I would say the fact that And Dallas doesn't even know that we're live right now, but who cares man because you know what Dallas is a good dude But in general, I would say that actually investing in my business and spending some money I never actually made any real money at all ever until I started spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on my business I Just didn't make any money like I I've actually made Significance amounts of money when I started investing in my business and actually thinking bigger and Taking risk and just freaking going for it. That's what's paid off. It really has All right, we got a couple of live questions that have come in Gerardo Garcia asks when someone calls to cancel their policy. How do you approach it to save it for them?  I definitely don't want to lose you. You're one of my favorites talk to me I'm here to help if I can help you keep this. I'm sure you would like to am I right so talk to me What can I do to help you and it's that type of verbiage and conversation also, but getting back in front of Hey miss Betty, you know what before you say it I'll be out there tomorrow I mean I'll be in your area anyway. We're like freaking family by now. I'm gonna stop by at two o'clock. Okay, and They're a client. Just just tell them so I mean that kind of stuff can help for sure I would say those two things were pure gold that I've never actually put on video before And Larry Woods has an objection. He wants you to try to over Larry Woods, dude You know I'm the objection king bro. Let's do it. He says What if they call and say or what if they say to you? This says it's free. Is it really because if not I'm not interested Okay, and you know what you can't overcome everything you can't get in front of everyone but the way I respond to is it free or You know does the state pay for it or is it government funded or any other type of like? Objection where someone doesn't quite understand what they're looking at or they didn't read it or they skimmed or they Assumed what they want to do assume right that happens my response is you know what? To answer your question So security disability only pays 250 or I'm sorry, so security only pays 255 dollars When someone passes away, I've got some information. That's extremely valuable.  I have to drop it off. It's 2 o'clock or 4 o'clock better Now did I answer their question? Sort of sort of It's all true, and I'm coming to see them. So there we go Douglas Mike Ramon and Vince Sponpinato, what's up brother man? Hope you're doing well, buddy. It's one of my favorite dudes all the questions for now. That's it You guys were sure that was I was at 12 minutes today or so 10 12 minutes normally we go Longer I think we've been answering all your questions on other videos Maybe you guys haven't been asking enough questions Maybe I answered them too quickly today and because we're about to get on a plane here in a couple hours About to eat lunch and get on a plane Dylan is actually going to be the captain today We we talked we talked American Airlines and letting him fly the plane today. So that's exciting and I've been no pressure, bro So it'll be good Tara and Bethany and Lauren are gonna help with the booth. They're all going we'll be at the Venetian in that in Vegas Anything else any other question any other live questions? We've got a couple of seconds here. Yeah, we got a few coming in now Eddie Montalvo on YouTube wants to know when you get to the appointment to drop something off What is it you're dropping off?  You've also got a business card. You've also got quotes You've also got a fact finder. You've got you've got brochures, right? You've got stuff to drop off But I use that as a tactic to get to set the appointment because you'll set more appointments saying that number one and Number two most people forget that you were ever dropping something off anyway They don't remember that little detail. They just don't very rarely do they ever remember that detail? so And Adam wants to know what do you say when they say why can't you just drop it off in my mail? Perfect Unfortunately, we're not allowed. It's it's illegal for us to put stuff in the mail Especially in your mailbox and in reality We aren't allowed to because there's something we need to show you and we're going to be there anyway So we feel like we might as well drop it off, right? It's kind of like melding if I drop it off It's kind of like melding it in person am I right? I'll be out there Friday or mornings or afternoons typically better And Mary Kay wants to know is it okay to be assigned under multiple IMOs? If they allow you to be then it is There you go Ron also is Ron van doosen said I got an email yesterday Will there be guaranteed front row seating for those of us who already bought VIP tickets Bailey? I'm guessing that's a yes Yep If you already bought a ticket and there's front row seats if you've already bought a ticket up until now You get a front-row seat if in your section if you buy it after now It'll be based on availability, so I can't promise it But if you run which is the man for buying a seat. Yes, we'll get you a front row, bro That's exciting. I may get you I may need to talk to you about upgrading to premiere front row It's good to meet me get the meat the speakers to now VIP still incredible and VIP's only 297 this week Is that right guys? That's where a personation comm at the stat alert. What is this for you? Those that don't know it's an insurance wealth conference to help you succeed and blow up your business as an insurance agent So I want you there a prune a personation comm VIP tickets to 97 only This week a few more days. We're gonna have 1078 agents at this event 70 premiere 396 VIP 612 general premiere and VIP will sell out before general They just will everybody wants like you know what I mean? Who doesn't want free lunch? Who doesn't want a chance to hang out with the speakers in the VIP lounge? Who doesn't want to be at a VIP party? Who doesn't want to sit closer to the stage? So those will sell out sooner for sure And then Tate wants to know what are your thoughts on an FMO agency? I love that Say the last one again What are your thoughts on an FMO agency? Yeah, I Don't even I don't even know a lot of times. I don't even know what those are a lot of those acronyms mean I don't even know if anybody else does either. You know what I mean mark me. What's up, buddy? Larry Woods Diana run Ramon, thank you guys so much for joining anything else any other questions where we jump on a plane To go hang out with mark in Vegas Yeah, last one Adam says what if they say tell me what this is about what this is about over the phone right now perfect Restate the first part of the script. They say hey, I want to know what it is right now Perfect. It's the it's about the new state regulated final expense information that I'm gonna make sure that I bring with me Because again, I'm the local field underwriter and I'll be I actually I'll be in at an area your area on Friday So so should I drop it off in the morning or in the afternoon? that people need to get better repeating the script and finishing with a question instead of Giving all the information away on the call any other questions the Duke Should he be called Duke duker or Duke Kind of like after the school duke you may you may not like that the Lauren would love that big big big Blue Devils fan Or maybe we'll call you Zion. Who knows? Zion of the of the live Q&A Anything else we good? Ready to roll, bro? Ready to get on a plane? He wore his camouflage so he can sneak on they won't see him. He's gonna try to blend in today while we're traveling That's right, that's right But if he isn't if he has no prior military experience, then I'm not letting him do that Matt Bailey Anything anything Matt you got anything you want to show him Matt's been hooking up the interactive You need to go to our website so you can see the new interactive chart Briebers a nation He's got a new we got a new interactive chart to where you can actually go and pick The seat that you want this year unbelievable a personation calm go to secure agent leads calm to grab some leads Leads or what you need if you don't have leads you're unemployed so You know if you're at the unemployment line, it's probably because you didn't buy some leads You know thoughts 92% of agents fail There's more millionaires in this industry than any other industry in the world I'm about to go fly to Vegas where it's warm. It's snowed a bunch this morning and it's seven degrees here, so I'm gonna get out of here anything else Let's do it. Thanks for watching live Q&A every Wednesday normally two o'clock. It's back to two o'clock next week today I'm getting I'll be on a plane.  I don't know. I've never tried it Maybe we'll try today So it was now you just missed if you just join and go back and watch it you haven't subscribed Liked shared or commented, please do so we'll answer your questions again on next Wednesday's live Q&A We'll see you again live on Friday at two o'clock central standard time 8% club have an awesome week appreciate you guys. Thanks Dylan. Thanks Duke. Thank you Matt for being the studio audience You guys are awesome. Appreciate it


It is September 2001, and the disaster has hit the United States, but it isn't the one that you might be thinking of. Granted, today's subject has been overshadowed by another certain event, but it is no less tragic. Yes, the death toll is lower, but the collapse of a bridge in Texas would bear a similarity to several other disasters. Highlighting that history is doomed to repeat itself and that bridges over waterways are quite often poorly protected. Today we're looking at the September 15th 2001 Queen Isabella Causeway collapse. Background. Our story starts all the way back in 1974 with the opening of the Queen Isabella Causeway, the bridge that was built to connect Port Isabel to South Padre Island. The island is a nature reserve and is largely a tourist attraction, but it does have a small population. By the time the bridge was built, around 300 people called the small strip of barrier land with Laguna Madre to the rear and the Gulf of Mexico in the front home. The island had only been occupied since roughly 1964 and the new bridge was actually a replacement for an earlier crossing, rather confusingly also called the Queen Isabella Causeway. The original crossing involved a wooden causeway and a swing bridge. This allowed the mainland to connect the South Padre Island and Long Island, not that one. It had been opened in July 1954 and by August of the same year, 73,000 vehicles had paid the toll to cross to the island. Anywho, the new bridge was built about half a mile north of the old one, with a long curve designed to help the structure withstand hurricanes. State Highway 100 was extended to the new bridge location through the business district of Port Isabel and in the process, several buildings were demolished. The four-lane causeway was built as the longest bridge in Texas, well at least at the time. It spanned over 15,000 feet across the bay, boasted a width of 68 feet and a top of deck height of 78 feet above mean high tide at the center of the main span. It was constructed of 147 80-foot pre-stressed concrete spans with a steel cantilever main beam in the center span. Under this main span, runs a shipping channel. Now the area is a bit of a shipping junction of sorts and as such vessels in the area take a rather strange route near the causeway. Shipping can come to the causeway from two directions, from the north and from the south. But when looking at a map, the southern approach isn't exactly the way you might think. You see, shipping is directed along a section of channel locally known as the Y. This is an upside down Y shape, which is at the southern tip of Long Island, not that one. The channel is roughly 12 feet deep. Say you're coming in from the Gulf of Mexico, you must travel west until you get to Long Island, and again, not that one. From there you can go two ways, straight ahead, continuing west along the ship channel towards Brownsville. If you want to go towards the intercoastal waterway to the north, then you turn north at the Y and navigate the channel behind Long Island, not that one. This section of waterway is called the S-curve, for kind of obvious reasons when you see it on a map. At the end of the S-curve, vessels are now in line with navigating under the Queen Isabella Causeway to help with guidance boys are provided. It's the same way you would go if you were coming from Brownsville towards the intercoastal waterway. Although guided towards the correct approach to pass under the biggest span of the Causeway, several allusions have occurred since 1974, but nothing too catastrophic. The bridge was inspected regularly and was being strengthened by applying metallic coating to some of the supporting bent, a trial on the bridge which had started in 1996. I want to talk about 1996, we have to mention a plane crash. On the 13th of August 1996, at roughly 20 past six in the evening, a Cessna TR-182 crashed into the Causeway. The plane had been successfully flown under the bridge and was going in for another go. However, the small aircraft collided with one of the concrete supports and plunged into the water, killing both pilot and pilot rated passenger. It later turned out that the pilot in command was intoxicated, which isn't very surprising. Although pretty dramatic, plane crashes were not the biggest danger to the bridge, it was and always would be from shipping. And that would be the case on the 15th of September 2001, the disaster. It is the 14th of September 2001 and the still-hold towing vessel named MV Brownwater number 5, built in 1978 and owned by Brownwater Marine Services of Rockport, Texas is in the port of Brownsville. The day is filled with refuelling, minor repairs and marshalling its barges for a trip in the evening. The crew make up today is of five men consisting of three deck hands, one captain and a relief captain. The two captains are the ones who hold the license to operate the vessel. The Brownwater number five was to push four barges this evening and they're loaded with steel with one of the barges loaded with phosphates. The tug and its cargo leave Brownsville port around roughly 9pm and start to head down the Brownsville shipping channel. Captain Rocky Lee Wilson is at the controls with the relief captain asleep. A crew changeover took place roughly about 12 midnight, roughly nine miles from Long Island and yes I know it's not that one. From 12 the man at the controls is Captain David D. Fowler. Captain Wilson then sleeps in his quarters below. This evening in the wheelhouse accompanying Fowler is one of the deck hands but due to nothing too exciting being planned the captain has allowed his assistant to sleep. However Fowler can still wake him up if needed. The Brownwater number five reaches the Y shipping area at roughly 1am and begins to navigate up the S-curve shipping lane towards the Long Island swing bridge. Logged with indicate that the vessel reached a swing at 1.45 in the morning on the 15th of September. Passing through the swing bridge is around 15 minutes before getting to the Queen Isabella causeway. As the Brownwater five left the protection of the island the current started pushing the heavy barges in a northwesterly direction. Captain Fowler was not aware of the current and hadn't prepared for it as such the head of the tow was pushed north west away from the channel. The vessel was also being affected by another current pushing north east from the S channel behind it. The vessel was being pushed in two different directions essentially turning the MV Brownwater off course. It then bumped its hull on the shallows next to the channel. Captain Fowler was no longer in control and was being pushed westwards towards the causeway. The barges and the MV Brownwater five collided with the Queen Isabella causeway support columns traveling at roughly 0.2 of a mile an hour. The impact zone was roughly 375 feet west of the channel. The sheer weight of the vessel battered the bridge. Three 80 foot sections of the bridge disappeared into the water. The bridge was now incomplete and in the darkness almost impossible to spot for road users. Nine vehicles were plunged into the dark waters of the Laguna Madre. Eleven people were in the cars of which eight would not survive. The victims were Robert Harris, Hector Martinez, Harpoon Barry Welch, Chelsea Welch, Julio Mirolez, Robin Livell, Stefan Rivas and Gaspar Inosa. After the collision Captain Fowler frantically tried to warn road users of the collapsed bridge with the vessel's thousand watt spotlight but sadly it had little effect. The first rescuers on the scene were local fishermen who tried to pull survivors from the wreckage of concrete mangled vehicles in the water. Initially it was thought it was a terrorist attack, bearing in mind that this was just a few days after the Twin Towers but no it was just a good old tragic series of events. The bridge not only represented the only method of transport off South Padre Island but also the small community's only supply of water and power. Residents would be isolated for over two months having to rely on a hastily set up ferry service. The repair works would require the replacement of three spans as well as an additional two more sections which although had not collapsed had become severely damaged. A $12 million fibre optic driver warning system was installed as part of the refurbishment. The bridge would see traffic again on the 21st November 2001 and two years after the collapse the causeway would be renamed to Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge in memory of its victims. But although a local tragedy the root cause of the accident still had to be ascertained. The US Coast Guard would head up the investigation to how the MV Brownwater 5 and more specifically the person at the controls got it so wrong. The investigation. The S-Benz section of the channel was known to be a tricky section of water to navigate and as such it was essential to be properly prepared. The US Coast Guard interviewed several mariners who navigated the channel quite regularly and the results were not great for Fowler. Expert witnesses stated that the current could be predicted before exiting the S-Curve by observing the current in the channel itself. The other captain aboard Rocky Wilson stated that when he navigated near the causeway he called the Long Island Swing Bridge operator for a current report as well as observed the whale of water was flowing around the boys in the area. Another captain was called as a witness who had navigated the channel just a few hours ahead of the MV Brownwater and he stated that he contacted other vessels in the area for their opinion on the currents. All of these things Fowler failed to do. The approach to the bridge was deemed adequate in the way it was properly marked. The tug itself was deemed safe and the weather wasn't too treacherous. The cause was nothing but that of the person at the controls. Although Captain Fowler would dispute this when a few years after the disaster he would actually try and sue the tugboat owners. The US Coast Guard report was so damning that it even recommended criminal charges be brought against Fowler. A dive into Fowler's past was also something to be concerned about. Coast Guard records showed the accident to be Fowler's second bridge strike and third grounding in 13 months. The disaster shows along with the sunshine bridge collapse and the I-40 bridge disaster that just a momentary lapse of judgement can result in so much death and destruction. This is a plain difficult production. All videos on the channel are created by myself, John, and are Creative Commons Attribution Share alike licensed. All videos are produced in a currently wet corner of London, UK. I'd like to thank my Patreon members and YouTube members for your financial support. If you'd like to check out this outro song in its full glory then you can on my second channel made by John. If you want to get updates on future videos then you can on my Twitter account and all that's left to say is thank you for watching.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Today I am coming at you with my July favorites. I can't believe that we are over halfway through this year. It has flown by. I am so incredibly excited about my favorites for the month of July. I have so many WW food favorites. I have beauty, home, lifestyle, a little bit of everything and I can't wait to share them with you. So if you're excited for another favorites video, give this one a big, huge thumbs up. It definitely lets me know to keep putting out these monthly favorites. And if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly, highly recommend taking advantage of this service. That way you know what you should be consuming every day to hit your goals. If you would love to chat with me directly, I offer one-on-one coaching as well. Links, discounts to all my favorite things and my Facebook group. Definitely after this video, head over and join us there. Such a wonderful community that would love to have you. So let's jump in to my July favorites. As always, we're going to start out with my WW food favorites and I'm going to start out with the items that belong in my refrigerator or freezer so I can get them back in there. My first item is the spinach and kale Greek yogurt dip from Trader Joe's. As you can see, this is almost gone and no, this is not a new item to Trader Joe's, but this is a refresh item for me. I haven't purchased this in so long and I kind of picked it up on a whim and I love this dip. I forgot how incredibly delicious this dip is. It is low calorie, it is a low point. My favorite way to eat this is either spread into celery on a wrap as my condiment so that way you can avoid adding points for mayonnaise or cheese. You just spread a little bit of this dip on there and it serves as a really good condiment or to dip crackers into. A little bit later in today's food favorites, I will show you some crackers that I've been loving, especially with this dip. So if you have a Trader Joe's in your area, pick it up. You won't be sorry. The next item also comes from Trader Joe's and this is a new to me product. These are their chicken spring rolls and it says white meat chicken with basil, garlic and ginger. These are so good. This is the second box that I've purchased in the last couple of weeks. I pop these into my air fryer and they are such a great snack or meal or side dish. They're really, really delicious. They're low calorie, low point and it gives you that whole Chinese food vibe without being fried in grease. Next up I have a good food avocado mash four pack. So these are actually little individual cups of avocado mash or guacamole. One thing I don't love about these types of products is generally there's more than one serving in the little cup. So it can be a little bit frustrating that you can't eat the whole cup as one serving. Now this particular one is it is one serving per container. It is 90 calories per cup. So I like that it is just the one serving portion and the flavor is so good. This is my favorite on the go guacamole. I buy these from imperfect foods. I've actually never seen these in my regular grocery store, but I will link in perfect foods down below for you guys with $20 off your first order. No minimum purchase if you're interested in helping prevent food waste. I pick these up every time I place in imperfect foods order. Next are the Rosemary crackers from Trader Joe's. Now this is a new Trader Joe's product, but these are the crackers I love to dip in that spinach and kale dip. And this is my second bag of these crackers as well. I didn't know Troy would like these, but he actually really likes these. They're so crunchy and flavorful and delicious. And you actually get 12 crackers for 140 calories or four points. So not bad at all. I don't usually even eat 12, usually between 8 and 10 for my couple tablespoons of dip. But these crackers, while they're at Trader Joe's, pick them up. They are so good. Next up is a new release from Loconto Monk Fruit Sweetener. You guys know this is my favorite sweetener alternative. This is empty because I put this in my little sweetener container in my pantry, but this is their organic monk fruit sweetener with urethra tall. So the ingredients are organic urethra tall, organic monk fruit. So everything in here is organic. It's their traditional blend that they use in their monk fruit products, but this one for some reason just tastes a lot better. I don't know if it's because it's sourced from organic ingredients, but I really, really like this. This is a brand new product on the Loconto website. I will link this down below and I do have 15% off of any order on Loconto's website. In fact, I'm going to share with you next another Loconto product from their website that I'm loving. And that is their Loconto Maple Syrup. Now you guys know I do not eat sugar-free or I try to avoid it at most costs. This is a sugar-free syrup, but this is sweetened with their monk fruit sweetener. So it isn't sugar-free syrup with caramel coloring that you buy in the grocery store. This one actually has good ingredients. So this is purified water, tapioca fiber, chicory root inulin, potato starch. It does have natural flavor. That's the one thing I don't love. Sea salt, monk fruit extract, fruit juice for coloring, and natural citrus extract for preservatives. So no caramel coloring in this, and it still has that nice golden syrup. Look, this tastes incredible. It's so good that I ordered two of the big bottles off of their website. So this will also be part of the Loconto website, including the 15% off discount. In fact, last month I shared their Cinnamon Maple Syrup with you. I just reordered two more bottles of that as well. I just love their syrup. Oh, and I didn't mention, but this is two tablespoons for 25 calories. So way less calories, way less sugar than traditional maple syrup, way less points, and it is so good. Next is the Primal Kitchen Hawaiian barbecue sauce. I don't eat the G Hughes because they don't have the best ingredients, and they use Splenda or sucralose as their sweetener, which I also try to avoid. So when I saw this on the Thrive Market, that's another place you guys know that I order from a lot. They have really healthy options at affordable prices. I'll link Thrive down below for you too. But I did order quite a big box and added this Hawaiian barbecue sauce. This has only 30 calories and two tablespoons. So yes, it has a little more calories than G Hughes, but the ingredients in this are so, so good. This is such a good barbecue sauce. It's sweet. It's savory. You get those pineapple notes. I love this. Even Troy likes this. And he is not a big barbecue sauce person in general because he generally thinks that they're too sweet, but he actually likes this one. So next time I do another Thrive Order, I'll be adding some more of these to my cart and you can't go wrong with the Primal Kitchen brand. Next up is the brand new amazing flavor from Verb Energy. This is the Chocolate Peanut Buttercup bars. I cannot tell you how much I love these bars. These literally taste like a no-bake cookie. I ordered these because they were a new flavor from Verb. This is the size of the bar. They're 90 calories, three points, and they have 65 milligrams of caffeine in them, which is the same amount of caffeine that's in a shot of espresso. So when I saw that they had a chocolate peanut butter bar, of course I had to order it.  Fresh from the bakery, loaded with sugar, calories, points, no-bake cookie. These are amazing. This is my all-time favorite Verb bar. Even the texture is no-bake cookie. They are so delicious. I love these as a snack, pre-workout especially because it gives you that little bit of caffeine to help make it through your workout. I don't know how Verb does it, but every time they come out with a new bar, I love it more and more and more. So I'll link Verb down below for you. They generally have a really good special to try out, a single flavor bag, and then they always throw in four or five extra bars of different flavors for you to try for free with your order. So I will link Verb down below with whatever current promotion that they have for you, but get this chocolate peanut butter cup. If you love no-bake bars, chef's kiss. My next food favorite are these little good bites in the coconut brownie. Now I also ordered these from the Thrive Market. I've never seen these before, so when I was scrolling through their organic healthy section and I saw these, I had to get them. There are six of the little bites per bag. They are 60 calories apiece, and here's the ingredients in these, you guys. They taste like a coconut brownie. They're so delicious. So it has organic coconut flakes, organic cacao powder, organic maple syrup, organic coconut oil, Himalayan pink salt, and organic pure vanilla extract. That's all that's in these, and like I said, they're 60 calories apiece. Here is what they look like. So they kind of look like, again, a no-bake cookie, like a little ball of no-bake cookie, but they are so delicious. They have that perfect amount of sweetness that they make a really good sweet treat if you're craving something sweet or for your nightly dessert, and you can't be the calories, points, and the ingredients of these, 10 out of 10. And my last WW food favorite also comes from Thrive Market. Now I'm a big jerky meat stick eater because it's a really good way for low calories and points to get in your protein for the day. So when I saw this turkey jerky original flavor Thrive brand, I thought I would go ahead and pick it up. It was affordable, and there are actually two servings in this package, but I eat the whole package when I eat it. This is the best turkey jerky I've ever had. It's soft, it's flavorful, it doesn't have any weird texture or taste to it. It is so incredibly good. It is a 90 calories per serving, and it has 11 grams per serving. So when I eat this entire bag, I have 22 grams of protein for only 180 calories. Love this jerky. They had a lot of flavors. They had sweet, spicy, peppered, they had just a ton of variety.  And again, I will leave the Thrive Market down below. They do have a 25% off your order plus a free gift when you join the Thrive Market. So that'll be down below for you guys as well. So now let's jump into a few home favorites. So I have three items to share with you guys today, starting with my water glass. So in a cup, a few months back, I featured these brewmate water tumblers or alcohol tumblers, whatever you want to use it for in my favorites video. And I have been loving my Black Leopard one. You guys see me have that in most videos when I eat in a day, when I'm on my zoom calls, that is my water cup of choice. Well, I was finding that I was putting that in the dishwasher washing it and then being sad when I wanted to fill it up the next day and it was still in the dishwasher. So I decided to go ahead and invest in a second water cup. I love the plastic lid of these. They are stainless steel line. These are a dupe, so to speak, for the Yeti. They keep your drinks hot, cold for hours. I can put water in here and it will stay cold all day long. So what I do is I take my gallon jug that stays in my refrigerator all day because I like my water really cold and I fill up my tumbler throughout the day. And when my gallon's gone, I know that I've drank my gallon of water, but I'm every time I fill it up, the water's nice and cold and it stays cold. So you can see that I'm drinking out of this one today. There are tons of colors, designs and patterns. And these are much more affordable than the Yeti and I feel like equally as good. So also from Brewmate, I decided to pick up a big water bottle with the drinkable lid and the holder here to carry the bottle with you. What I was finding is I would take my big gallon jug of water with me to a jazz or size so that I could take my pre-workout, drink water during my workout, drink water after my workout. But my water wasn't staying cold while I was running all of my errands. So now what I'm doing instead is filling this up before I leave the house from my gallon and this water stays cold, pre-workout, during my workout, after my workout. And it's just a good way for me to get in at least 24 ounces of water while I'm out and about and cold water, which is the kind of water that I prefer. So I love this. Again, I think this one was $39.99 and I believe the tumblers are $29.99. I will link both of these products and the Brewmate's website down below for you. And my other home favorite is this set of knives. I know as weird as that is, these are the Cuisinart knives. And I just want to point out how absolutely stunning these knives are. My kitchen is gray and white. So these fit the aesthetic perfectly. It has the nice gray base with the Cuisinart label, an entire set of knives, steak knives, scissors, and a sharpener. These were really affordable. I picked these up off of Amazon. They had several color combinations, but of course, I went with the gray and the white. These knives are extremely high quality. I was finding that my cheaper knives got dull really quickly and they started to rust really quickly. These have excellent review. I again, I bought these off of Amazon. I'll link them down below for you. But if you're in the market for a high quality, but affordable knife set, pick up these Cuisinart ones, we love these. And now let's jump into our final category of favorites. And this is makeup, which of course makes me happy. Makeup and skincare. So we're going to start with these super fun, colorful gel liners from ColourPop. I've recently really gotten into gel liners. I like to actually put these on my lower waterline. Today I have a really pretty gold color on my waterline and gel liners just make it so easy. You can use these as actual eyeliners as well. A lot of times I'll put this under my lower lash line and smudge it out because it's gel, it smudges out really easy. So of course, I'm obsessed with these now. So I went under the ColourPop website and ordered probably like 10 different kinds. But I've been using these every single day. I just match my liner color with my eye look. So again, today I have that pretty gold from ColourPop under on my lower lash line. I love these. They're so cheap. They're super affordable. I think they're like four dollars a piece. So I'm just going to go ahead and link the ColourPop website down below. And then I'll put a link to the gel liner so that you can look through the colors. But I love these.  And again, I've been using them every day. Next up is this Tarte Creaseless Concealer. As I've gotten older, I'm starting to get the fine lines under my eyes. And a lot of times when I use concealers, even hydrating concealers like the Tarte Shape Tape or the Elf Camo Concealer, it makes my under eyes look dry and creepy. So I was looking for a concealer that was a little bit thicker and mattifying and creaseless. So this Tarte Creaseless Concealer has been a game changer for me. It does not settle into my fine lines. It does not make my under eye look creepy. I am utterly impressed. And although it's Tarte, it's still an affordable concealer. And we know that concealer lasts forever. I actually picked up two of these because I do not want this to go away somehow and me not be able to get my hands on this because this is one of the only concealers that I have found that works with my mature under eyes. The next product are these blush sticks from ColourPop. If you follow me on my beauty channel, you know that I am obsessed with cream blush and I have been on the hunt to find the perfect cream blush. I actually did a battle of the blush video where I shared nine different cream blushes and ranked them from the worst to the best. Well, since that video, I discovered these blush sticks from ColourPop. This is a fairly new product to their line. And these are basically cream blush sticks. So I love this kind of a mauve color. And I think this is going to be perfect for the fall and winter. And then this one, I love this just more pink colored blush stick. But these are such a great formula. So how I put these on is I'm actually wearing this one on my cheeks today. Is I use a kabuki brush and I pick up the product directly from the stick and then tap it onto my face. I don't rub the stick on my face because I don't know if it will pick up my foundation, my bronze are underneath. So just to be safe, I pick it up off of the stick or package with my kabuki brush and then press it into my skin. I love these. The formula is great and these are so, so affordable. I had purchased the Beauty Counter blush stick and these are a million times better in about a quarter of the price. So again, off of the ColourPop website, a new launch for them. If you are into cream blush or want to be in cream blush, love these. New products from ELF are their putty bronzers. So here is what their bronzers look like. So this is another product in their putty line. I love their putty blush, their putty primer, and this bronzer is fantastic. If you like cream products or you want a more natural bronzer, highly recommend this one. Today I'm actually wearing a powder bronzer, but for no makeup makeup days or if I just want to sun kiss my skin a little bit, make it look a little more natural. These putty blushes are fantastic. They have so many shades. I ended up going with a darker shade just so I could use it as contour or bronzer, they're six dollars. So check them out. Next up is the Patrick Ta for Browse. Now I actually got this in a Sephora Favorites bag. So this is the Patrick Ta Brow Wax, basically a four soap brows. Now I never got on the soap brow trend because I have wild and crazy eyebrows. And I like to add a little bit of color to fill in my brows, whether it be a pencil or it be a mascara. So I've been loving the Flower Beauty Fiber mascara. I shared that in last month's favorites. I'll link that one down below for you. But I've gone on the soap brow trend. So what I'm doing is using this prior to putting in some color or some brow mascara and this just really holds my brows in place all day long. So if you love the natural fluffy brow look, this is one of the best products for that. And for me, it does such a great job of just holding my brows in place. So again, this is the Patrick Ta for Brow. Next up is a skincare product that I've literally been obsessed with. This is the Summer Friday CCME Serum. Now I receive this in a subscription box. I love this. I have seen visible differences with my skin, with this product alone. It adds hydration. It plumps my skin. It fills in my fine lines so they're less visible. This product is amazing. I again got it in a subscription box. I will be repurchasing this. This is one skincare product that I have seen immediate noticeable differences. So if you struggle with dry skin, fine lines and wrinkles. If you want just that little bit of plumpness, hydration and just fresh looking, young looking skin, this product is well, well worth it. I can't wait to have this in my life moving forward. And last but not least, we always round out our favorites with my favorite eyeshadow palette of the month. We are doing all color pop today. So this is the Color Pop Lemon cello palette. Now, this one came out a while ago and I didn't pick it up. And I've been looking at it, putting it in my altar cart, taking it out of my altar cart. When I went on the color pops website to buy these blushes and the liners, I decided to bite the bullet and pick up the palette. At that time, all the palettes on color pop were 30 percent off. So I think I bought like four or five, including the palette that I have on my eyes today. This is the color pop lyric and this is just a five pan palette. I'll link this one down below for you too. But I decided to pick up the lemon cello palette. Look at this palette. This is just so incredibly gorgeous. It is neutral. It has colors and this blue shade right here. I'm obsessed with that for my lower lash line. The shimmers in here, especially this yellowy green color right here, is absolutely gorgeous. Let me swatch this for you. That is one swipe in. Look at that. Just everything about this palette is my dream come true. I love this. I've been using it like crazy. It's super affordable because it's color pop. I will link it on both altar and color pop in the description box. If you want a neutral but a fun palette, pick this one up. So those are my July favorites. We had WW foods, we had home, we had beauty, we had a little bit of everything. And all of these products, I have been loving this last month. So if you enjoyed this favorites video, don't forget to give it a big thumbs up. And if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and click the bell next to it so you never miss a single upload. Check out the description box down below for all of the products that can't be picked up at your local grocery store. They will be linked down in the description box for you, along with nutrition, coaching links to my other favorite things. And of course, my Facebook group, definitely head over and join us there. Thank you guys so much for watching. Let me know down in the comments, which of these items was your favorite from my favorites, and I'll see you all in the next one. Bye.