Good afternoon and welcome. My name is Brian Merringer. I am the principal of the Audison Middle School. Today, we would like to welcome the Audison community, students, alumni, parents, current and retired faculty and staff, and town residents to one of our special events celebrating Audison's 100th birthday, the presentation of a resolution from the Massachusetts General Court honoring Audison's 100 years of learning. We are pleased to have some special guests here to help us today. We have, first of all, Rachelle Rubino, who is one of our assistant principals here at the Audison Middle School. We also have Julia McEwen, who is an assistant principal here as well. We have Dr. Holman, who is the superintendent of the Arlington Schools. Mr. Sean Garbley, who is Arlington's state representative. Arlington's state senator, Ms. Cindy Friedman. We are also receiving information from Mr. Dave Rogers, who we were hoping could be here, but unfortunately cannot attend, and Mr. Bill Hayner, who is the chairperson of the Arlington School Committee. Exactly 100 years and one day ago, on December 8, 1921, the recently completed Junior High West was dedicated. At the time, the Arlington School Board was one of the first school committees in the state to adopt the recommendations of a newly founded National Education Association that young adolescents have distinct social, emotional, and academic needs, and that these needs would be better through junior high schools, as opposed to grade 1 through 8 grammar schools and 9 through 12 high schools. The Junior High West was one of the first junior high schools in the state, and its dedication was an important event. The standing room only, we had Mr. Clarence Kingsley, supervisor for the secondary education, the Massachusetts State Board of Education, was the keynote speaker, according to the Arlington advocate, who also said the auditorium was packed that day with standing room only. The title of his address was the Junior High School as a modern expression of American democracy in education. For 100 years, the Junior High West, now called the Autism, after its long-serving principal, A. Henry Autism, was helping its students to develop the social, emotional, and academic skills necessary for us to have responsible citizens. I would like to thank the community of Arlington. It is a pleasure and honor to be the principal of the Audison Middle School. We are filled with talented teachers and wonderful students, and every day I look forward to coming here to the Audison. There are days here in which I leave, knowing that I'm fortunate, and also being able to experience kids growing up. And more than anything, I get to laugh hard once a day because there's always something that seems to be funny here at the middle school. What I would like to do, though, is I'd like to get different perspectives from people who have been here and either been students here, might have been parents here, or run the district. At this time, I'd like to invite Representative Garbley, who was a student here when it was a few years ago, should we say to come up and read the official resolution along with Senator Friedman. So I'd like to invite them both up here to the microphone, please. Good afternoon. It is an honor to be here and join all of you, Principal Merringer. Thank you so much for inviting myself and Senator Friedman to this incredible birthday celebration. And on behalf of myself and Senator Friedman and Representative Rogers, it was an honor to present this resolution celebrating 100 years of outstanding education to the town of Arlington and to the young people of the town of Arlington. I also want to mention Derek Keenan, my staff director, is here. And I say that because Derek is a graduate of the Odyssey Middle School. Before we jointly read the resolution, I want to talk about why this is so important. It's difficult sometimes to celebrate the birthday of a structure, of a school. But that's really not what we're doing today. Well, it is. We're celebrating 100 years of this wonderful school in the Odyssey Middle School. But what we're doing is we're celebrating 100 years of teaching and learning and experiences of teachers, students, and staff. Every student that comes into this building is shaped and molded by teachers, by staff, and their futures are brighter because of the role that this school has played in their lives. When students leave the Odyssey, they are filled with memories. And I want to share one memory. As a graduate of the Odyssey Middle School class of 1999, when I came to the middle school, I didn't come to this building because it was in the middle of getting built. I went to Arlington High because at that time, that's where the Odyssey was. Kind of a dark place sometimes. Not the place a middle school student would find him or herself. We had a great experience. And then when this building opened up, it was beautiful. It was a brand new school filled with great experiences and absolutely great memories. And I cherish those experiences from the teachers I had, from the students I created lifelong friendships with. And I will always have that in my future. I am shaped and molded by the experiences and the positive experiences I had here at the Odyssey Middle School. So Senator Friedman is going to say a few words of her experience as a parent of students here at the Odyssey Middle School. And then we're going to jointly read the resolution. Thank you, Sean. And thanks to everybody who's watching this. And thanks to ACMI for being here and supporting the students of what we used to call the AV Club. And this is just one of the examples of what happens here at the middle school, that kids have an opportunity to do these kinds of things. That this is a place where learning both learning an interdisciplinary curriculum but also a hands-on curriculum is really, really important and serves people so well. I'm happy to report that my daughter, who was a student here at Odyssey, is a grown-up adult with a real job and health insurance. And so all the parents out there know that there is light at the end of the tunnel. This is a challenging and fascinating and, like the principal said, amazingly fun age. And I want to thank all of the staff and all of the teachers who come here to work with these kids. It's such an important time of life. And what happens here really matters. So we are quite pleased and honored to be here. And we are so glad that the Odyssey is here and that it continues. And here's to another 100 years. And thanks to you all. And now we're going to read the resolution. OK, congratulating the Odyssey Middle School in the town of Arlington on its 100th birthday. Whereas the Odyssey Middle School in the town of Arlington was established as a junior high school on December 8, 1921. And we'll be celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and whereas the school was originally called the Junior High West and selected as its first principal, J. Stern's Cushion, who served from 1921 to 1923 and was succeeded by Franklin P. Hawks, who served from 1923 to 1938, followed by A. Henry Odyssey, who served from 1939 to 1972. And the school has been under the leadership of subsequent outstanding principals since and whereas throughout the school's first 100 years, the school community has recognized and celebrated the varied academic, social, and developmental needs of the students. And whereas the school community has, for the past century, encouraged all of its students to engage in a rigorous interdisciplinary curricular and extracurricular program while empowering students to achieve their maximum potential and whereas the students of the school strive to be creative and collaborative decision makers are culturally aware and mindful of themselves and others and have made many positive contributions to their community. Therefore, be it resolved that the members of the Massachusetts General Court hereby congratulate the Odyssey Middle School in the town of Arlington on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. And further recognize its illustrious century of teaching and learning, admirably reflecting the town of Arlington's continuous commitment to its children's welfare and its high ideals of educational excellence, and be it further resolved. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded by the clerk of the House of Representatives to the Odyssey Middle School in the town of Arlington, signed by Ronald Mariano, Speaker of the House, Stephen James, Clerk of the House, Karen E. Spilke, President of the Senate, Michael D. Hurley, Clerk of the Senate, and the representative and myself. And Representative Dave Rogers. Thank you, everybody. Representative Garberley and Senator Friedman, thank you very much. I agree with you. It's a lot about the people here and the experiences that our kids have had that really make this important. Next, I'd like to call up, please, to the podium, Dr. Homan. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for having me. My name is Liz Homan, and I'm the very proud Superintendent of Schools for the Arlington Public Schools. Unlike Representative Garberley and Senator Friedman, I'm new to both Massachusetts and to Arlington. This is my first year as the superintendent. But I can say that as a former middle school teacher and someone who has spent my career and went to a junior high school in middle schools and in schools, this is a very special building. It is rare in one's career that they get to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a school. It's even more rare today that we get to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a junior high school or middle school. And as a former teacher of eighth grade, I can say that this is a very special time in students' lives. Massachusetts was right and was a pioneer, and Arlington was a pioneer in recognizing that this period of a child's growth and adolescence is a critical one for their social development, for their academic development. And so it gives me great joy to be here and to have been here yesterday on the actual birthday of the Audison Middle School, going through classrooms, meeting Audison's bright and brilliant students, and recognizing that Arlington is both a town that promotes civic engagement and one that recognized very early that at a very young age, our students are able to make a difference in their community. So I want to say thank you for being here. I'm very happy to be here to celebrate this very important birthday for the Audison and for Arlington's public schools. And with that, I will hand it over to the chair of the school committee, Mr. Bill Heiner. I think one of the reasons I got picked is because I'm closer to the 1921 in age. I want to thank Ms. Duke, the students that are here, and ACMI. As I was watching you, it just dawned on me, when the school was first opened, television hadn't been officially invented yet. RCA was still experimenting in New York City. By the time I was born, there was a TV show called Howdy Duty. Television went off the air at about midnight and would come on, there'd be a test pattern. Parents would wake up in the morning and you'd sit there and look at it. Didn't have any television for you people to work video. So you're very fortunate in doing this. The school has been a piece of bedrock in this town. It's one of the few schools that has been consistently there for the past 30, 40 years. People look at it. My wife graduated from here in 1960. She was, Mr. Audison's daughter was in that class. She wanted me to make sure that you all saw it. There's a picture of the graduating class over there and it'll be part of the video at some time. The teachers here are something very special. The students here are something very special. I wanna thank you all for letting me part of it. Thank you, Mr. Haynor. I'd like to thank everyone who shared something here today and I'd like to thank all their guests for their time to celebrate with us this afternoon. I would also like to thank the students who are currently filming from ACMI and the Audison Media Group, which has done a great job. I'd also like to thank one of our teachers, Amy Duke, who has done just a fantastic job organizing this event, but also other events throughout this year. She has a great sense of history and likes to keep it alive. So as all of us look forward to another century of educational excellence at the Audison Middle School, I just wanted to thank, once again, many of the teachers who come through these doors every day to help our students learn. I'd like to thank the students here and I'd like to thank our families who entrust their children to get a great educational experience here at the Audison Middle School. So thank you very much for tuning in today and good afternoon.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines, Haiti's de facto President-journal moist killed in an overnight attack, Colombia's peace tribunal accuses 10 soldiers of extrajudicial civilian killings, Cook County workers enter second week on strike for fair contracts in the United States, and in our video section we take a look at the growing persecution of activists and journalists in India. In our first story, Haiti's de facto President-journal moist was assassinated during the early hours of July 7. Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph has stated that the unidentified armed men had attacked his residence in Port-au-Prince. Moise's spouse in First Lady Martin Moise was also injured and has been hospitalized. In an official statement, Joseph said that the armed men spoke Spanish. He later said that they spoke Spanish or English and were heavily armed and trained. Gunfire could be heard in the parallel five district after the attack. A state of emergency has been declared as Joseph's call for an extraordinary council of ministers. Meanwhile, Moise had been ruling by decree after Haiti failed to hold parliamentary elections during 2018. While his presidential term was legally supposed to end in February 2021, he refused to step down. This led to mass protests across Haiti demanding an end to his term. Meanwhile, Moise passed a series of decrees to solidify his power and dismiss judges who opposed his actions. Despite the rejection of his presidency by the people of Haiti, he continued to receive support from the UN, the OAS, and the US. Moise scheduled first parliamentary elections for September. He also sanctioned the drafting of a new constitution which was supposed to be put on a referendum on September 26. The document proposes the elimination of the Senate and a return to the presidentialist system. Meanwhile, Haiti has also been witnessing a surge in abductions and violent attacks. Journalist Diego Charles, an activist and tenet declared were among the 15 people assassinated on June 29. Moreover, fighting between rival armed groups has displaced over 10,000 people in Port-au-Prince in June. These groups continue to control large parts of poor and working class neighbourhoods, including managing people's identity cards. In our next story, a Colombian court has accused 10 soldiers of the extrajudicial killings of at least 120 civilians. Among them are a military general, six officers, three non-commissioned officers, and a member of the public force. The special jurisdiction for peace or JEP announced a ruling on July 6. The accused have been held responsible for the civilian murders in Catatumbo between 2007 and August 2008. They were later presented as combat deaths of guerrilla fighters. This is the first time that the JEP has accused the Colombian army in relation to the false positive scandal. This case refers to a series of civilian killings which are later presented as combat fatalities. As per the JEP, the Colombian army carried out over 6,400 such killings between 2002 and 2008. This coincided with the incentive program launched under President Alvaro Uribe. Soldiers with higher combat kills were rewarded with vacations, promotions etc. The JEP is examining atrocities carried out over 50 years of armed conflict in Colombia. The court was set up after the guerrilla revolutionary armed forces of Colombia were demobilized in 2016. However, despite signing the peace accords, former combatants have continued to be killed in the country. The JEP has also warned against rising casualties during the ongoing national strike. The tribunal has noted an increase of over 400% in civilian repercussions in armed conflict. Colombia is currently the second country after Myanmar with the highest rate of violent deaths per day of protest. One death has been recorded in the country every 36 hours. Meanwhile, violent armed conflict has increased in 111 municipalities. We now go to the US where 2,500 workers in Illinois have been on strike for almost two weeks. Custodians, clerks and technicians employed by Cook County began picketing on June 25th. Organized by the service employees International Union, they are demanding a fair contract. Prior to the strike, the SEIU had been involved in negotiations with the county for over eight months. So far, the government has only offered a pay increase of 8.5% over four years. However, this will be lower in the rate of inflation. Moreover, the county is proposing to increase health insurance costs by around 80%. Cook County employees worked the pandemic even as people contracted and died from COVID-19. Workers have also stated that they did not have access to proper protective equipment. The employment contracts of thousands of workers in Cook County has expired on November 2020. Since then, various unions have negotiated and approved agreements with the government. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees agreed to 11.5% rise over four years. According to the union, the deal will include raises ranging from 12.2% to 31.7% over four years. In the meantime, SEIU workers were offered a significantly smaller raise. As per an update released on July 2nd, the government's later offer was a late stopover pay increase of 0.5%. Under this proposal, most workers will not receive a raise at all while others will get 10 cents an hour. And in our final story, we go to India. Outrage is grown following the custodial death of 84-year-old activist father Stan Swamy. He died in hospital on June 5th after his health continued to worsen during eight months in jail. Swamy was among the 16 activists and lawyers were imprisoned in relation with what is known as the Bhima Koregao case. The case refers to Caspace extremist violence that took place in Bhima Koregao village on January 1st, 2018. Arrested activists were accused of instigating the violence and having links with the outlawed Maoist Party in India. They have been repeatedly denying these allegations and have also been denied bail while they are awaiting trial. The Bhima Koregao 15 was among the increasing number of activists and journalists being persecuted in India. Here is a video featured on the situation in the video. 84-year-old human rights activist, priest and political prisoner Stan Swamy died in hospital on July 5th in India. Many have called his death an institutional murder and a custodial killing. This is because Swamy had been incarcerated under dubious and unproven allegations. His appeal for medical bail had been rejected multiple times despite his deteriorating health. Swamy suffered from Parkinson's along with other ailments. He had contracted COVID-19 in jail. However, he was denied medical care for over 10 days before he was shifted to a hospital last month. Swamy had challenged the court's rejection of his bail in a higher court. The National Investigation Agency or NIA, which is probing the case, opposed Swamy's bail plea in the court stating that there did not exist conclusive proof of his medical ailments. Swamy died shortly before the matter was due to be heard again. Stan Swamy was a renowned activist who had spent decades working for the welfare of tribal communities in India. He had to fight a legal battle to even access a straw and zipper which he needed because of Parkinson's. Swamy was among the 16 activists and academics who have been arrested in the Bhima Koregao The case began on January 1st, 2018 when right-wing groups attacked a gathering of progressives celebrating the anniversary of the historic Battle of Bhima Koregao that took place 200 years ago. The violence led to the death of at least one person. Initially, the police had investigated right-wing leaders who were present at the scene for instigating riots. Later, however, investigating agency announced a probe which implicated progressive activists and accused them of working with the banned Maoist guerrillas to destabilize the country. The case has been severely criticized especially after reports by Washington Post which alleged that incriminating evidence had been planted on the laptop of one of the accused Rona Wilson using malware. New reports have now emerged after Swamy's death stating that evidence was also planted in a similar manner on the laptop of another accused Surendra Gardily. Attempts were also made to plant incriminating evidence on the laptop of Stan Swamy. It is not yet known if those were successful. Many of those imprisoned under this case are above the age of 60 and suffer from various health issues. 82-year-old Varavara Rao's health also deteriorated significantly while in prison. He is a poet and another accused in the Bhima Koregao case. He had contracted COVID-19, unilaterally tracked infection and was suffering a number of other ailments. In July 2020, his family had expressed the fear that he was suffering from brain damage. In February this year he was finally granted bail after two and a half years in prison. Another accused Hanibabu, a professor at Delhi University, tested positive for COVID-19 in May. He was already suffering from an acute eye infection for which treatment was delayed by prison authorities. Because of the infection, he suffered from almost complete loss of vision in his eye. The infection spread considerably before he was finally taken to a hospital. The treatment is still continuing. Seven of the 16 accused in this case have contracted COVID-19 now. Apart from this case as well, political prisoners in India incarcerated under dubious charges have been struggling to survive the pandemic. Siddique Kappan, a journalist, was arrested in October last year as he was trying to travel to the town of Hatris in Northern India to report on a caste-based rape case. In the midst of the pandemic, Kappan was arrested and lodged in an overcrowded prison where he got infected during a COVID outbreak. After much delay when he was finally admitted to a hospital, Kappan was kept chained to his bed and was not even allowed to get up to use the toilet. Throughout his illness, Kappan did not receive proper medical care. The common link among all these people is they have been charged under the Draconian Indian Law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act or UAPA. The law allows authorities to detain people without presenting any charges for up to six months. Even afterwards, it is extremely difficult to get bail as authorities tend to cite vague arguments of threat to national security and sedition without presenting concrete evidence. A few days before his death, Stan Swamy had challenged the constitutional validity of certain sections of UAPA in court. Swamy said in his petition that the insurmountable hurdles UAP creates in getting bail violates the accused person's fundamental right to life and liberty as guaranteed by the constitution. Under the ruling far-right BJP government in India led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UAPA is being used more and more often to clamp down on free speech and dissent.


So clearly the shopping season has begun. These are the haul at some of the holiday sets that are out right now that I'm going to review for you so that you can see which is the best deal of all. Hi friends. Yes, we do have a lot to get through, but they are mostly sets. So I'm going to get into this right now so that you can see out of like Sephora favorites or the lip combos that are at Ulta. I got some Anastasia Beverly Hills lippies in here and I have a little bit of tart which I don't normally ever review. I'm also going to really quickly show you because I did haul this. This is from Morphe. This is the 35C Everyday Chic and I haven't bought Morphe for quite some time. I do like their bigger pallets sometimes, but I was so drawn to this one. This one just has so many cool vibes in here and I just absolutely was in love with what I saw and it drew me so much to this is obviously these muted plums. This as a deepened plum, there's a lot lighter plums in here. You have the little bit of violet tones in here. You have the pinks, but you have some burgundies. You have a forest green up here. This just kind of ticks off a ton of boxes. I will say that a few of these shimmers are a little bit more sheer than I would like them to be. If I'm going to use a metallic, I want it to show up high metallic. So that was one little bit of a drawback, but most of them are gorgeous. One thing that I have noticed that you might like a lot from this palette is that even though some of these different shimmers are a little bit lighter, you might like that if you have an eyelid that you feel like you can't wear a lot of shimmer on because what you might want to do is go in with a lighter color or a darker color either one and then put a topper over it. So pretty. The colors are beautiful on it. I have worked with it for three days now and I just think that they're really gorgeous. I don't have a problem with any of them. Like I said, some of them come across. I shouldn't say I don't have a problem with any of them. I gotta stop. This one right here is a full-on glitter. So unless you're somebody that likes to wear glitter, you might not like that one. It doesn't bother me to have one in there. So just know that out of it. But I do think that these are really gorgeous. I think that they're beautiful, different colors, colors that we haven't seen out before from Morphe or really from anybody. I just think it's really a beautiful palette. I know that some people don't like Morphe at all, but I wanted to show that to you really quick. All right, on to the sets. I have to get my readers on for this because I want to read. So there's four in here and they are pretty much just really super light colors. So if you're somebody that just really doesn't like a colored lip gloss, you just like look for toppers, this is perfect for you. So let me go through all of these. This first one is called Clouds. It is a very light colored pink with a little bit of a sheen of a peach in it. You're not going to be able to see these hardly at all. But basically, you know that they are just more than anything. They're just toppers. This one is called Sweet. It is, it looks like just a milky, super, super light vanilla in there. And again, you can't really see that. And then the next one is a super light nude. And this one is called Tasty. And they do smell really good. I like this one. If you're somebody that really wants a really nude color to go over stuff, it's a very light nude on that. So these are all sheer. So you do know that as well. And then this last one is called Bubbly. And it has the little bit more of the reflect in it than any of the others do. Pretty much really sheer, but really beautiful at the same time, especially for a topper. So that is the set comes like this. And then, you know, you obviously get the little container that it comes in as well. So I do like that. I think it's a would be a great gift, especially if you have somebody that's young in your life, you know, sometimes the reds in sets can get a little bit carried away. And you don't want to see a young person in that, especially if they're under the age of about 14. So I really like this one a lot. And this one is $28 for the four of them. Okay, the next one is the one from Tarte. And again, this is the wardrobe, the blush wardrobe comes like this. So cool container on it. And then when you take it out, there's three individual, there's Ali, there's three individual different palettes in here. And the palettes are actually kind of cool this time. I like that they didn't do them round.  And then they do pivot around so you can see all the colors in here. So this particular one has kind of a champagne golden color in there. And then it has kind of a nude colored blush, which is a little bit more on the deep and coral side. And then it has a bronzer in there. So that's what's in those three. So there's the first three in that little trio. And it has gold on the top. The next one has a rose gold on the top of it. And again, you have the highlighter there, which is more of almost a peachy highlighter in that one. And then a very peachy color underneath it for a blush. They said that all of these were new blush colors to Tarte. I do feel like this year with these that it's a little bit better than last year's, you know, last year they had this same concept, but it was round. And I didn't really like the quality of these in there as much as I do this year. So I do like this a little bit better this year. And then the last one has like a pinky lavender color on the top. And obviously, so that's going to give us a few more pink blushes in here. First one is like an iridescent, by the way, I should tell you, it said that there was one bronzer, two highlighters, and six new blushes so that you know that. And then we have kind of a flat, like medium pink right here, or kind of a rose medium pink. Down here on the bottom is kind of a definite blue pink with a little bit more deepened on there. So I will put those across there so you can see them as well. If I can figure out where I was at. And there they all are. So personally, this time, I think that they did a pretty good job in picking out really nice colors and you know, getting colors that would work for just about anybody. So I'm liking this gift set this time. Last year, I liked it, but I wasn't like crazy about it. I do think that they're pretty good quality this time. You know, lots of people say that usually in the sets, it's not as good a quality as it is in what you buy every day in their line. That very well may be true, but these were pretty good for me this time. And this gift set this time is $35 for the three little trios. So you're getting nine total products there for $35. All right. So this one is from Ulta. And this is the lip lineup. And then this one right here is $39 for all of these that you get in here. You get one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine products in here. And you get a $5 off coupon that is good towards any of these that are full size. I will tell you that the Kylie lip gloss is a full size. And there was one other full size in here. I can't remember. It might be this nude stick right over here. I do think that that's actually pretty good as far as, you know, how much this would cost if you were to buy them separately. I will tell you that I was really loving this one from Grande Lips. But if you have been with me any amount of time, you know that I do not like grit. And when I put this on my lips, there was grit. And I was not happy, but man, oh man, that's pretty. So you get this mini from Lime Crime. This is just a clear gloss and it's called wet cherry. So I'm assuming that it probably smells like cherries. It does have a fragrance in it, but I'm not exactly sure that that is cherry at all. And then you get over here from Buxom, you get a lip balm.  You get a few lip colors in here. This one is from Bare Minerals. And I'll go ahead and I'll swatch that for you. This one is a red as well. Actually, this one, it almost looks like a light cherry red. It doesn't really look like a deepened one. And then Anastasia Beverly Hills, there's one in here. This looks like a medium nude color, which I think is really pretty. Actually, that looks almost like a medium mauve color, medium to deep mauve color. Ooh, that's pretty. I am going to try that one on because I think that's pretty. Let's see. It probably won't show up too much over what I got on because I got so much going on my lips right now. I like that. It's very, very pretty color. It's a little bit more deepened. And then you get a little liquid lip from Smashbox. I'm assuming this is a little liquid lip. And this is kind of a burnt orange color. And then this one is from Nude Stick. This is one of their lip crayons, which is really pretty. That is not a matte that actually does have quite a bit of the satin or cream property to it. That's actually very pretty. More of kind of a neutral color. And then the Kylie lip gloss. What are you doing? Come on. Oh, goodness. So somebody wants to steal the limelight. He was over there whining. I don't know why.  Do you guys remember when he was so tiny he could fit in my neck when I hugged him?  And he's also a terrorist. He does all kinds of terrorist moves in the house. Terrorizes his sisters. Terrorizes my laundry. Terrorizes the garbage. He's pretty much your basic terrorist in all respects. So yeah, we're having all kinds of fun. Get a puppy, they said. It'll be fun, they said. But how can you stay mad at that face? So he's a good boy. He just is really, really busy. And so the last one that I have to share with you is the Kylie lip gloss. And this lip gloss is one that is just a perfect middle ground. It isn't too thick. It isn't too thin. I feel like you're going to have it there for a while. It's got a beautiful fragrance to it. I like that. It's a little bit of a vanilla, soft fragrance to it. I like that. I actually did enjoy getting this one. All right, moving on to this Sephora favorite, which is the lash wardrobe, mascara wardrobe lash stash. So it does come with 10 products in here. Now, one of them is the lashes, which I'll probably be sharing with my daughter because she loves lashes, but I might keep them for a special occasion. They're really pretty. They're the velour lashes. And I've heard that they're really nice lashes. It also comes with the Lancome De Finisils. This one is the primer. And if you guys have never seen this before, it is a great primer. It does a really good job of helping to thicken and lengthen those lashes. And it does have little fibers in it. If you don't let it dry down completely, if you let it dry down completely, you're not going to like it.   I really wanted to try this one from Urban Decay because it's that new one with that funky wand. However, I will tell you that I've already tried that. And that is the goopiest, nastiest mess. And I probably won't be using that. But what I might do is when I'm done with some of these others, if the wand fits in here, I might just test the formula of it because I think the wand is just a little wonky for me. But it does come with some that I know that I absolutely love. Bad Gal Bang from Benefit. Really, really beautiful mascara for length and volume. And then this one is one from Illia. I think that's how you say it. Anyway, this one gives the most phenomenal length. I was just so impressed on that. And then the one from Anastasia Beverly Hills. I actually have this one on today. So can you see my lashes, ladies? I love this one. It feels really soft on the lashes. It doesn't feel crunchy. The Better Than Sex one, it's okay. I've tried it in the past. I don't think it's the best mascara in the world. I probably will be passing that on in a giveaway or maybe to my daughter. But overall, I was really excited about these choices this year. There's a lot of new stuff in here. There's a lot of tried and true like the Lancome Primer. I love that. I really do think they're good. Oh, by the way, this one is from Grande Lash. And this one is their serum. So you get that in there too. I don't use this one. So again, I'm going to be passing that on to somebody else. I use my own serums. If you want to know what that is, I'll make sure I link it down below. I'll make sure I see if I can throw it up in a card. You know what? When YouTubers say they're going to throw something up in a card, never believe it. Because we usually always forget we're going to throw it up in the card. I do think this is a great deal at $48 for what they gave you in there.  So, you know, you're getting a really good deal there. All right. The last one that I have to share with you is the makeup must haves from Sephora Favorites.  These mostly will be gone because people know that these are actually pretty good sets. Now, this one has in it two, four, six, eight products and the Marc Jacobs is a full size. The Nars is a full size and the Hooda Beauty is a full size along with the Anastasia brow. I think that's the brow is. Yes. So, that's a full size as well. This is packed full of some of my very favorites of all time. I am not going to dip into the Nars blush, but I will show you that it is the full size one there. I'm going to save. I'm going to save that for a giveaway, but this is the Nars orgasm blush that is in there and it's a beautiful blush. If you've never seen it, it's just kind of a pinky pinky peachy one with a tiny bit of a sheen that goes so pretty across the skin. It can be built up. It can be sheared out. It is a cult favorite for a reason. It's really good. And then also in here is the photo finish. This is the primer from Smashbox. This is who started it all with primers. And this is just your basic Dimethicone primer that fills pores. It's a little bit of a medium to thick formula, but man, this blurs out pores. Going in through this area for me is just fantastic with this. Again, this was my own that I already have, so I didn't touch this one in here. The Hooda Beauty lipstick, I will swatch that one for you so you can see what color it is. I think this is really pretty. It is definitely a very, very matte color. I would say that this color is a medium warm rose on it. Some of the Trident True products that are in here is the Urban Decay All Nighter. Everybody that uses this one understands why it's called that. If you have oily skin, combo skin, if you get combo through your T zone, then spray it in your T zone. Your makeup is going to last like crazy. If you have oily skin, it is also going to help keep that oil at bay all day long. It's great to have these ones that you can throw in your purse and either travel with or just have every day when you've got your little makeup bag in your purse. The Anastasia Brow Wiz, on one side it has a spoolie on one side and then on the other side it has just the very, very fine tipped microbrow. Let me get the spectacles so we can see what color this one is. This is probably medium brown. It is a pretty brown. It's a little bit on the warm side, I will tell you. Let me see if I can build that up. You know what? It really, I don't know. It kind of is casting neutral. I like that one a lot. Then it has the Kat Von D or the KVD, not called Kat Von D anymore. Tattoo Liner that again is a cult classic. I have had that one for years. I love it. So good. It's a really good one. I have not tried the Pat McGrath before on the mascara. I'm not going to crack that one open because I want to save it because I have so many already opened from the lash wardrobe over there. So I'm not going to open that one yet, but it also has the Peach Perfect. This is the Peach Smelling Powder from Too Faced.  So this one we will see because I've never tried it before either. It feels really good. It feels really nice. It feels a lot like the Laura Mercier translucent setting powder, but it does have that little bit of artificial peach scent in it. So you know that. Okay. So that is that whole one right there. I feel about some of these. I think that you could break them apart. Take out of them what you haven't tried yet or what you want to try and then gift them to somebody that you like or just keep it all together and keep it as a gift for yourself or pass it on to somebody else. But I do feel like they put together some really great gift sets this year. I usually almost always get the Anastasia little 4 sets because I just love these glosses. The glosses are not too sticky, but they are a little bit thicker of a formula so that you will have the gloss on all day long, which I think is great. So yeah, let me know in the comment section if you guys are trying anything yet, if you've gotten anything yet, if this is something that you do pick up every year. I try to pick up one or two, especially to review them for you guys, but I wanted to make sure that I brought them to you as soon as I could because like I said, they are gone really quickly early in the year, way before Black Friday usually. So if you see something you like, maybe jump on it. And we do know that Sephora is going to be having their sale pretty soon. I think I'm VIB this year, so I only get like 15% off, but it's a little bit of something. Anyway, that is it. I hope that you guys have enjoyed this video. Please give it a thumbs up if you have. I really do appreciate that, and I hope everybody is doing really well. I know that we're in the middle of another surge with COVID. Oh my goodness. So wear your mask, sanitize, wash those hands, stay out of really crowded places because honestly people, my mother and dad got it from passing keys. So my sister-in-law didn't know she had it. She passed keys through a doorway, just the keys, and when my mother touched the keys, it was on there, and that's how my mother and dad got it. So be vigilant people. Use the sanitizer and definitely, definitely wash those hands and wear those masks. So love you all very much. Catch you all in my next video. Bye guys.