the latest weapons coupled with the fighting skill of the American soldier stands ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country you the American people against aggression this is the big picture an official television report to the nation from the United States Army now to show you part of the big picture here is sergeant Stuart Queen today on the big picture we have a rather unusual story to tell it is an important story one that has truly revolutionized military training in the United States Army yet this is a story that I'm quite sure very few of you know very much about what gives here Conte Lee Rapida Erie please pardon this intrusion on the big picture ladies and gentlemen but it's time that you the people of America knew the truth about the aggressor nation I don't know how long my men can hold this station so I must be brief my name is Captain Damoc third aggressor army member Circle Trigon party I am sure that you of the television audience are completely unaware of this but listen the facts ever since the fall of 1946 the American army has been at war with the forces of the Circle Trigon party now during this decade large areas of the continental United States have been liberated by our forces because we have been so successful you of course have been kept from the facts but now with the capture of the big picture the Circle Trigon side of the story can at last be told and we have prepared a short documentary film showing the liberation of the United States to date I think you're going to find it interesting the aggressor nation came into existence at the end of World War two with the formation of the Circle Trigon party and the aggressor armed forces in the fall of 1946 our aggressor armies aided by many sympathizers liberated the Antilles chain of islands and the Panama Canal the fighting continued our forces slowly but steadily consolidating one area after another in 1947 Florida and portions of Georgia and North and South Carolina were liberated by the aggressor forces while to the north we were successful in New England and in the St. Lawrence River area in 1948 an airhead was established in Tennessee and then unfortunately lost to superior United States forces 1949 the Hawaiian islands and the strategic Aleutian Islands just south of Alaska liberated 1950 some territory given up to consolidate our games strength built up to meet new attacks upon the liberated areas 1951 amphibious operations against South Carolina successful Charleston falls 1952 Texas liberated 1953 most of New York State liberated 1954 part of the West Coast liberated 1955 and 1956 action continued on all fronts Washington tried the big lie technique but at present the aggressor holds these key areas in the continental United States and so you see the aggressor armies have met with considerable success wherever they have turned but we cannot afford to rest on past glories as long as there is an American army in existence we will be at war with that army at this very moment somewhere in the United States American soldiers are locked in combat with the soldiers of the aggressor nation I see we have established television contact with aggressor headquarters somewhere deep in the heartland of America we take you there now for a first-hand report this is Lieutenant T. Tenage at aggressor army headquarters in this sector of the front the current action has lasted almost three weeks now our general officers have decided the time has come for a knockout blow the entire aggressor force will strike the American positions right here but for a first-hand report of this forthcoming action I will turn you over to our television reporter directly in the battle zone this is lieutenant fieta in the aggressor battle zone the word has just reached us of the forthcoming attack this is the moment we've been waiting for all is ready for weeks now the build-up has been underway these tank reinforcements arrived only yesterday they will see action before today is out they are powerful persuaders in our efforts to liberate this country but we have other forms of persuasion too modern warfare uses a lot of psychology if the US troops have any sense they will heed the good advice given here with these pamphlets for the first time they will learn the truth about the war it is time that they were told it is time for them to put down their arms and permit themselves to be liberated perhaps these leaflets will make the battle easier for both sides we have some other interesting persuaders listen as aggressor Annie chats with her American friends hello boys I have some good news for you three passes through our lines will soon be floating down from heaven for you use them we are not really enemies but friends so let's get together come on over and see me real soon meanwhile our aggressor forces are not idle while Annie has the attention of the American troops our aggressor forces are about to launch the attack through the night our forces move against a weak spot in the American defensive we of the aggressors pride ourselves on being able to strike quickly suddenly we're least expected by night and by day our highly mechanized army is always on the go the final approach of the infantry is on foot we know that our aggressor soldiers are superior to any American soldiers for they are aggressors concealment and camouflage are our specialties and we use many more automatic weapons than any army in the world while other units prepare for the attack reserves dig in to receive the expected American counterattack no American tanks will pass on this road we've planned this operation completely and no American soldiers will remove the anti-tank emplacements which we have so carefully prepared this is the final step when our positions are completely guarded by mines we'll be ready tanks move up positions are man the artillery is ready HR everywhere the Americans are pushed back let me switch you to the parade ground of aggressor headquarters for more first-hand news of the victory this is lieutenant titanage at the parade ground just outside aggressor headquarters the news of our victory has elated the high command a holiday has been declared and right now the headquarters troops are about to pass in review celebrating just one more instance of aggressor invincibility it has been a great day for the armies of the aggressor nation return you to the big picture studio and captain demulc that's right I am captain demulc aggressor forces but I'm also captain Kenneth Evans United States Army in fact all aggressor personnel are in the US Army but with a very special mission our job is to create as realistic a maneuver enemy as possible so that combat training will approach the feeling of actual combat we aggressors are really just a great big training aid the biggest the army has at the close of world war two a board of 100 combat experienced American generals was formed to recommend training policies for the future out of these recommendations came the aggressor concept of a maneuver enemy the United States Army aggressor center was formed at Fort Riley Kansas and the mission was threefold first to provide a realistic enemy for maneuver training second to provide realistic situations for intelligence training and third to make sure that all American soldiers are aware that any future enemy will look and act differently from what he is accustomed to perhaps at the aggressor center Fort Riley Kansas we can give you a clearer picture of just what the aggressor concept is in this limestone building the whole aggressor army is housed not in the flesh but on paper let's go inside recognize this room and these people this is aggressor headquarters that's the high command this is where the aggressor plans his strategy you see every maneuver held by the United States Army is based on a realistic situation the aggressor holds certain territory and the US holds other territory both have certain objectives and both try to achieve them the resulting mock battle therefore has a true basis in reality the realism concept is carried even further remember when we said that the whole aggressor army was kept here well there's a part of it right there on that table the cards contain information about various aggressor army units they specify the type of unit the number of men assigned to it and even the names of the senior officers when aggressor prisoners are taken such information can be invaluable in determining the disposition and strength of the maneuver enemy there is one thing more that intelligence officers must keep in mind the aggressor doesn't fight like the US Army his tactics and strategy are a composite of those from all the armies of the world given the same situation he won't react in the same way that American forces would in addition the aggressor emphasizes infiltration and guerrilla actions these differences make for a realistic maneuver enemy this then is one of the functions of the men here at the aggressor center to plan the tactics and strategy the aggressor army will employ in any forthcoming maneuver but in any maneuver there are real aggressor soldiers moving according to the prearranged strategy who are they they are American soldiers who have been chosen to play the part of the aggressor for the duration of the maneuver however they receive considerable training in the aggressor concept just prior to the maneuver providing the personnel to train these potential aggressor soldiers is another one of the functions of the aggressor center us soldiers must be turned into aggressors complete with distinctive uniform insignia of rank this man is a sergeant major unit patches he is in the tank corps and even identification papers in Esperanto the official language of the aggressor nation if this man were captured during a maneuver whatever he spoke would be in Esperanto here we have an anime different in appearance and using an unfamiliar language furthermore realism is injected into the training remember those aggressor tanks that our friend lieutenant to the eight I told us had just moved into position they have been known to fool an observer from as little as 50 yards away such equipment combined with a few real tanks gives the aggressor the appearance of a strong armored force at a fraction of the cost in men material and time light and compact this equipment can be shipped around the country to where it's needed with a minimum of effort a few minutes at the end of this air hose and the limp bundle becomes a two-ton truck besides tanks and trucks the aggressor pneumatic equipment also includes artillery and speaking of artillery here is some more aggressor equipment that adds to the realism sound and flash simulators they give our forward observers a real target to look for from a distance when the pneumatic gun position fires it could be the real thing and when these battle noise simulators contribute their din to the maneuver area you have the closest thing to combat without anybody getting hurt but suppose we let you see for yourselves exactly how effective the aggressor is remember that battle we witnessed earlier from the aggressor side well now let's cross over the lines and see how it appeared to the other American troops engaged in this maneuver the aggressor attack is expected any minute and us forces are ready meanwhile overhead and army observation aircraft spots something new aggressor tank reinforcements what unit how many and where did they come from a photograph is made in the hope of finding the answers down on the ground photo interpreters analyze the picture looks like a fresh aggressor tank company moved in overnight the tanks may be pneumatic but they look real and as far as the American position in this maneuver is concerned they are real and the problem of meeting this tactical maneuver must be worked out as though it is a true combat situation with the lives of actual troops at stake but the aggressor is doing some flying too remember boys have some good news for you free passes through our lines will soon be floating down from heaven for you use them we're not really enemies but friends so let's get together come on over and see me real soon the lessons taught in realistic combat training like this are not quickly forgotten a moment's carelessness a short breather at the wrong time can have sudden unforeseen results rules of these maneuver engagements between aggressor and American troops require the men to act in every respect as they would in actual combat aggressor was successful in the center but his victory was not as complete as he thought on the flanks the American lines held and even managed to take a few aggressor prisoners the prisoners were taken immediately to the nearest command post where a US interrogating officer was ready to go to work on them in their own language he's a sergeant major from a fuselier division sir he's on company 3 that's supposed to be there reserved that may be an outfit we got that aerial photo of this morning sdc teal roto 3 but I but I look like they've committed a reserve sir from the information gathered from aerial photos and the interrogation of aggressor prisoners the American commanding officer decides a flanking counterattack would succeed combat training to be effective in maneuvers must be coordinated with realistic intelligence activities knowing that the aggressor forces have already committed their reserve elements the US troops push the attack to defeat their maneuver enemy and defeat have meaning only to the extent that the participating soldiers receive combat training which familiarizes them with the conditions they may expect to meet in true battle situations all the man US and aggressor forces alike have grown in combat experience then the maneuver has been a success and the purpose of having an aggressor force has been fulfilled function is to make training as realistic as possible to let American soldiers experience the sensation of fighting against different soldiers with different tactics a different language and a different philosophy of life and now I think I better turn the big picture back to Sergeant Queen I'm sure we all have a much better idea of just what the aggressor concept is and how it plays a major part in making American army training more realistic and therefore much more effective as a recent prisoner of the aggressor I can tell you it is effective thank you captain Evans this is sergeant steward queen inviting you to be with us again next week for another look at your army in action on the big picture the big picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the army at home and overseas produced by the army pictorial center presented by the United States Army in cooperation with this station


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I am doing three looks using the Natasha Denona Pastel Palette. If you haven't seen, it is this gorgeous Pastel Palette. I did do a full review if you are interested. So I did three very different looks with this palette. I got a better feel of the formulas. So if you want to see some looks for inspiration, obviously this is one of the looks, then just keep watching. Alright, let's get into look number one. This is going to be my split face look. So look number one and two are going to be on different eyes. But for all of the looks today, I'm going to use my ABHI primer. You want to use a light base for pastels. Just to get the most out of them, this is one of my all-time favorite primers for those pastel bases. Highly recommend this if you're looking for a base, but let's get into the beauty. I don't have any concealer or anything on so that we can clean up afterwards. We are going to start off with feather in the inner corner of my crease. So feather is a nice, pretty pale like lilac shade. And I'm going to put that right here. And you can see it builds up pretty quickly at first. Application, I'm always like, oh, this is kind of sheer. And then as soon as you add that second coat, it's beautiful. So I'm just putting that all over the crease. I want to test a little bit more of bubble, which is this kind of periwinkle shade. And we're going to put this in the outer half now of my crease. And these two blend into each other so beautifully. So again, this one is requiring a lot of building up, honestly, more so than feather. But once it's on there, it's on there. It's not one of those shades that really blends away and it is buildable. But it does take a little bit of extra time and patience and going back in the pan to get there. And I'm putting just a little bit on my outer corner, it's like that. Something to remember is that this is a pastel palette. So you're really not going to get depth with this. Depth is not what I'm going for. All right, I want to see how well we can pack on zest. In my first try with this, it was pretty sheer, but I want to try a flat shader brush to see how we can build this up. And oh, with this brush, this is an Esum W21. She pigmented way more pigmented than with a blending brush. Wow, okay, I definitely am having much more positive experiences with this. In the outer corner, I'm going to use just a little touch of Bora, which is that light purple shade. And I'm just going to blend it from the green zest into bubble, which is the blue. Just like that, just a little hint to bring in some of feather. And I'm going to go back into bubble just to make a seamless. Okay, on my finger, I'm going to take a little bit of Limoncello, which is a shimmery yellow. I'm going to put that right in the inner corner for a little bit of glow. And then I'm also going to put that in the center of my lid, kind of where Bora and zest meet. I'm going to take just a little bit more of feather just to get that to show up a little bit more vibrant. I'm going to pop on some concealer and then we'll do the lower lash line together. So I just put a little bit of concealer underneath, nothing serious. So I want to take feather again, which is the light pinky shade. And I want this to kind of bleed out from underneath the lower lash line. I'm doing a very light sheer wash because I'm going to put color over top it, but it will kind of peek through underneath all of the shadows that we're putting on top. Let's have a bubble be the main focus for the lower lash line, especially on the outer corner. And then inner lower lash line we're going back into zest, which has pleasantly surprised me. I did not love it the first time that I used it. I think using flat brushes really helps dig up the pigment. Okay, so here is the look so far. I'm going to put a neon yellow eyeliner in the lower lash line and I will be back to show you the final look. Okay guys, with the liner and lashes, do you see how this look really came together? I'm gonna test. I used the Colourpop cream gel liner and extra frosting, which is a very pastel yellow in the waterline. And then I used the shade visuals as my liner. And then I also have the lashes always and forever from the bridal collection. And this is the look, I love this one. This one I think is my favorite so far that I've come up with because it's purple and blue. For look number two, there are two eyeshadows that I have not yet used in this palette, which are Bellini right here and Starlet. So we're gonna use these two. And I'm gonna start off with a little bit of Bellini. It's kind of a gorgeous transitional peach shade. And we're gonna use this as our transition color. Next, I'm taking some of Starlet, which this is a duocreme shade. I'm taking it on an Esum W21 brush. I'm gonna tilt my head back and we are putting this on the outer half of my eyelid. Just like that. This is a starting point and both of these shades were absolutely beautiful. Next, we're gonna take some of Illusion, which is kind of like a sheer duocrome shade. And we're going to fill in the inner half of the eyelid. This is an interesting, almost putty-like formula. It still is a powder, but it has some similarities that you'd find with a putty formula. And I'm putting that on the inner half. How pretty is that? And this is probably one of the most wearable looks that you can get in the palette if you stop right here. But we've gotta amp it up. It is an Easter egg palette after all. So I'm starting off with some of Brisk right here. And I am going to pop this in the inner half of the lower lash line, just like this. We're gonna take some of Aerie, which is a little bit more of a pastel baby blue. And I'm going to almost wing it out just like this. And then you'll see this has a lot of pigment. So I'm gonna take it and create a little wing just over the whole look. And I'm gonna build up, be very, very careful when you're doing this. We're gonna go back into Brisk, which is the one that's a little bit more seafoam green and then finish it up in the inner corner. And I'm gonna blend out the front here. I know this kind of look is not everybody's cup of tea. It is definitely not even mine. But I just wanted to show you how pigmented these are. Oh my goodness, that's crazy, right? I'm gonna brighten up the look a little bit with a little bit more of illusion. And we're going to define right underneath the blue wing that I did. And the reason why I also decided to do a look like this was because Natasha was playing around with like using these almost as eyeliners as well. And I wanted to see if it was possible. If I wanted something a little bit more defined, I'd probably go in with like a crayon underneath and then use these eyeshadows to set it. But I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with the opacity. And once we get liner and lashes, it will definitely look a lot more editorial. So let me pop those on and I will show you. Okay guys, here is the final look. This one is very, very different for me, but I had a lot of fun in this, really I feel challenged the palette. So the key to this one was the color pop cream gel liner in Prance. It's this periwinkle shade that I use in the lower lash line and upper lash line. And then I have the same lily lashes always and forever. So don't be afraid to challenge this palette. I think it proved to be great quality in that you can, even without setting it or wetting it or putting anything underneath. I still got a pretty defined line. So I mean, I don't know that I love this look, but it was a good way to test the palette. This is the second look. Okay guys, so this is look number three. My favorite look by far. This is what I envisioned when I had this palette in my hands. So I'm gonna show you how to do it. First things first, we are going to dip into Airy, which is the baby blue. Airy is going into the inner third of my crease. And I'm finding with these shades, especially the ones that are more pastel, if you pat first and then blend, it does hold a little bit more opacity and just kind of lay down more color initially. So that way you can work smarter, not harder. Next up, we're going into brisk, which is kind of like this pastel green shade. And then brisk is going into the center of the crease like so. So we have the blue to this minty green transition. And this shade does kind of fade a little bit. So you're probably gonna have to go through a couple of times just to add that color back in. And then finally, to fill in the rest of the crease, we are going into tool, which is a mid-tone pink. And this shade holds a little bit more pigment than I thought. It is a creamed powder, but it still lays down pretty strong, as you can see. So that's just gonna fill in the rest of our crease. And then as you can see, I'm placing just a little bit on the eyelid. It should look like that. I'm gonna take my favorite shade in the palette, which I have decided is dainty because it's so freaking glittery. I love it.  This is a Esum W21, which is great for a precise application and really picking up a lot of product and laying it down. I'm just gonna pop this in the inner half of the eyelid. Do you see how beautiful and reflective that is? If you put this all over, this is just the most stunning shade. I wish she added more of this formula in the palette because it's so beautiful. Taking a clean Esum W21, I'm gonna do the same. I'm going into Mint Frost, which is kind of the same formula as dainty, but maybe a touch less glimmery. I'm gonna soak my brush in this and then I'm gonna wet it. And I'm gonna fill in the rest of the eyelid. I know it's interesting that I'm putting the green in the outer part because the pink is right here and the green is in the front, but I'm looking for that opposition in this look. I think it looks really neat and a little bit more interesting. And then to blend the two shades on the lid together, I'm going into duet. I'm not as crazy about this shade as I thought I would be. It's a little underwhelming. I wish I had a little bit more glimmer in it, considering it is a duo chrome. It could have been so much more fun if it had a little bit more oomph, but I'm just gonna use the purple and green shift to kind of blend the two shades together. And it really does create nice harmony between the two shades. I'm gonna take my wipe and I'm gonna clean up any fallout from the glimmery shades as well as kind of create a small shape right here. Amazing. I'm gonna pop on a little bit of concealer. I really enjoyed putting my foundation first just to get that clean even base that helps inspire me to create looks. Doing my eye look and then going in with the concealer to kind of guide the shape of the eye look after. And that way I don't have to worry about fallout anymore. It's been in order. I've been loving doing things. I'm taking a little bit of powder just to set underneath there.  And I'm gonna run this pretty low along my lower lash line. Don't be afraid to build it up.  And I'm going to this on the outer half of my lower lash line. I'm gonna take just a little bit more. And I'm gonna kind of sneak it right into this outer corner. This is gonna add depth. And it's also gonna make everything look just a little bit more cohesive. And this is the eye look. Isn't it so fun and pretty? It's giving me total cotton candy vibes. So let me put on some liner lashes and lips. And I will show you the final look. So here is the finished look, look number three. This is what I am going to wear to target today. So the major things, I use the Colourpop cream gel liner in Icebreaker in my waterline. Perfect shade for this look. And then I use some of the Fenty Beauty perpetrator purple liner. As my liner, I put a black over top but the purple is seeping through. And then lashes are Ardell Eco Lashes 445. So that is the final look. So I did want to come back and give updated thoughts of this palette. Now that I have used it more and you guys the quality on this I think is really, really good for a pastel palette. It is very, very easy to use. So typically with pastels that I've experienced in the past they've been very, very chalky. And even if they give you a lot of pigment to begin with they blend away into dust and you have to keep reapplying and you can't over blend. The one thing I will say about these is that you can definitely tell that they are high quality. While they might be a little bit sheer they definitely build and they don't blend away. So if you are into pastel shades I think that this is a very high quality pastel formula. Now for me this is when it comes down to personal preference. It honestly is not my favorite Natasha Denona palette. Honestly, the pastels in here they don't really inspire me. I even had a little bit of a creative black when it came to creating looks in this palette. I don't know what was up with me but I didn't love all the looks that I created. I really do love the one that I'm wearing now but I don't look at this palette and see a billion different looks that I can create which is a way that I feel about a lot of other palettes. This is a palette for me. I'm definitely gonna dig into Tropic and Circo Loco to create other looks with just because I do prefer a little bit more depth and if you're looking for depth then a pastel palette probably isn't for you but yeah, I mean I really do like this palette. I don't think this is done in here. I think the formulas are great but it certainly is not going to be everybody's cup of tea. A great way to look at this palette also is just as a wash kind of palette so you can grab a couple shades from here and just get a simple washed look all over the lid for the springtime. I think it's a great spring palette and I think it's great to incorporate with other palettes. So there we have it you guys. That was my three looks, one palette. Let me know which look was your favorite number one, two or three. If you pick this palette up let me know how you're feeling about it. Are you enjoying it? Are you having fun creating looks? I definitely will continue playing with this though because I know there are so many more looks that I can create. I just gotta look for more inspiration but that is all I have for today's video. If you guys aren't subscribed to my channel already make sure you do so and I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye guys, have a good one.


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You heard about the word on the street regarding Monkey Man? No, I actually haven't heard anything. It just premiered in Austin. Good stuff, bad stuff. Word on the street is it's really, really good. Nice. Yeah. Josh. And we'll go back to our Super X, of course. I'm Dev Patel. You follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. I think you should just follow us on Patreon, follow us to the account and subscribe like button. I'm looking forward to that. Your mom's looking forward to that. So, yeah, pretty much the takeaway from everybody who saw it was really strange that they were allowing, I, you know, we're a month out almost from its release. It opens April 5th. I've already seen it. Lies. It's pretty terrible. Basically a slumdog millionaire with monkeys. Because Monkey Man. Yeah, I didn't need the explanation. Okay, gotcha. Cool. No, I'm looking forward to it. I'll see it when it comes to streaming. Yeah. It's not an Indian movie. I mean, technically. Has that the way you've just become now? Any cinematic thing in the United States, it's not worth going to the movie theater for? Yeah. This is the industry where you want to be employed. I also want to be employed in the other industries. Yeah, but you... I'll go anywhere where they act. Today we got a Bollywood quiz. What? Made specifically. Made especially for the Bollywood bootleaders. The Bollywood bootleaders. The Bollywood bootleaders. The Bollywood bootleaders. The Bollywood bootleaders. Most of the questions are MC. What's that? I don't know. Mother Chote. Except in the case where you guessed the movie by its plot. Oh, I'm kind of going on the Michael K. Multiple choice. Choose your answer before moving to the next slide. It's correct answer. It's worth a point. That's the most point. At the end of the game, we didn't... Bern's question at the end is not Bollywood related. It is worth two points. Oh, I almost sounded like a Gandalf there for a second. P.S., best of luck, Rick. Thanks. I need it. Question one. Mother India lost to which film when it was nominated in the best foreign film category at the 1958 Oscars? That foreign film that foreign film, Casablanca. Mother India lost to which film when it was nominated in the best foreign film? It's got to be Knights of Cabriolet because the other ones aren't foreign films. Unless this is worded wrong. I don't even know what Knights of Cabriolet is. But the other ones are all Hollywood. So that would be best picture. Yeah. Knights of Cabriolet. Yeah, I'm guessing Knights of Cabriolet. Boom! Oh, it's Fellini. We should know that film. I don't even know who that is. Who's Fellini? Italian director Fellini? He's done a lot. He's arguably the most influential Italian film director of all time. Yeah. And a lot of directors like Scorsese deeply affected by Fellini's work. Yeah. So that's what it is. So if we both get it, no points, I guess? Yeah, no points. Zero. Right here, bud. Question 2. In the film Medaido. What does Rush Kamarao's character Charle du? He's a bodybuilder. Well, he's a cop too, though. I'm sticking with bodybuilder. Okay, I'm gonna say cop. But he does... Hey, there you go. Does he want to be a bodybuilder? Is that what it was? I thought he was both. Anyways, one for me. Wish Hollywood actor was originally considered for the role of Raj Malhotra in DDLJ. I know this. Yeah, okay. One zero for me. What is Manoj Bajpayee looking for in this scene from the gangs of Wasapur gun? It's always a good guess. For gangs of Wasapur. It's phone! I'm gonna say keys. Just to be different. Hey, look at you. A popular meme from the movie. We saw that in 19, didn't we? First year. I remember every frame of the film. We didn't see the second one until the next year. True. Which is totally how you're supposed to do it. Yes. Two zero. Actor hasn't won an Indian National Film Award yet. Abhishek. That's the obvious answer, but I bet he won it. So I think it's Cypher Vidya. Wait, it might be Dupika. Dupika Patakon. What would she have won for? Dupika Patakon. Maybe the acid throwing one? Dupika Patakon. But that was recent. Dupika Patakon. I'm gonna go Dupika. Abhishek Patakon. Hey, good for you. Three zero. Four zero. Rip. Satish Kaushik. In the movie Look By Chance, what field is the main lead, Farhan Akhtar, trying to make his career in? Acting. Which actor is popularly known as the angry Abhakjan? Still four zero. That one was too easy. Yeah. Who is this guy? Yeah, that's... I'll let you guess first. Do you want me to guess first? I'm pretty sure I know it. I thought it was Paresh Rawal. You're correct. This film's lead actors are Abhaydol and Mahil Gill. It is written and directed by Anirag Kashyap. Which 2009 film is it? Lead actors are Abhaydol and Mahil Gill. Black Friday. Abhaydol and Mahil Gill. That was Devdi? Yeah. Okay. Five zero. I didn't like Devdi, that's why. Well, I knew Black Friday was KK. Oh, that's right. That's right. Oh yeah, we know. Ludo was recent.  Yeah. Which of these is not an Almukta Bakjhan movie? Dwar. No, cars. Yep. No, I was going to get you there. That's Rishi, I believe. We haven't seen it yet. He's in Dwar. One that I had on the list for Classic Month. I was hoping to get to, but maybe I'll do it some other time. Who directed the film Amar Akbar Anthony? You should know that. I'm going to say it's Yash Chopra, but I think you should know that. You liked that movie, I didn't. I'm going to go B.R. Chopra. Nope. There you go. Still 5-0. Which cities does Ronnie visit when she goes on her solo honeymoon trip in Queen? Well, we saw that five years ago. That's a good movie, though. I think it's London. I think it's Paris and London. I think it's either Paris and Amsterdam or London and Belfast. I'm going to go Paris and Amsterdam. Okay. 6-0. Amrita Singh is the ex-wife of which Bollywood actor? Ex-wife. Sanjay Dutt. The Virgin. Salman's never been married, I'm pretty sure. So, Amir Khan. Oh, it's safe. I was about to guess him. In Three Idiots, what is Rancho's real name? Saw that in 2019. This is the first Indian film actor. Yep. I think it was all that in February of 2019. Yep. Because that was the first ever Indian film we ever watched. Correct. I've not re-watched it since. And Steph has never seen it. Oh, wow. I'm going to say it's Rancho's Charmadas Chanchat. That was my guess, but just to be different, I'm going to pick something different. I'm going to guess... Chatur? Ah, we're both wrong. What Indian movie was made into a Broadway musical? Oh, yeah. It's DDLJ. Who was the first Indian director to shoot at NASA? Shoot at them? It's a rocket! Who directed Swadesh? That's what I was thinking. I want to say it was Ashutosh Gaurakar. I think he directed Swadesh. Because that's what I think they really did. I think you're right, but I'm going to go Adi Shopra. Hey, I got one. Six one. It was right with the movie. Who was the first Bollywood actor to get a wax statue at Madame Tussauds? Oh! It has to be. Bachchan. If it's not Bachchan, there's something wrong. Shah Rukh. Yeah, but it should have been Bachchan. So you guys in Bachchan? Yeah, even though it's probably Shah Rukh Khan. I'm going to guess Shah Rukh. Hey! That's who it should be. Nice. Name the Bollywood movie by its vague plot. Younger brother undergoes a massive transformation with their father's wishes. Oh, is that the one where Rithik's eyes change? Where the kid who plays him doesn't have the same color eyes. Is that K3G? Yeah. I didn't get that, but yeah, I'll give you the point here. Yeah, nice. Don't call it a comeback. Hey! Singer Nora Jones is directly related to whom? Oh! I'm pretty sure she's related to Ravi Shankar. Shashi Kapoor. Oh, well. That was worth two points, though. Why? The bonus was worth two points. Oh, so it was six-five. Not too bad. Almost. I bet if we went back and looked, I got more that I knew and you got more that you guessed. No. Yeah. That doesn't make any sense. No, it does. You guessed half of yours. No, I didn't. No, I did not! Oh, you absolutely did. And you happened to guess correctly. No. What do you mean no? You knew all of them.  The ego on the guy. The penis on the guy, thank you so much. Well... But once again, I won. No big deal. Congrats. I'm confused by this question, the first question. Why? Just why wouldn't you pick other foreign films? Oh, yeah. I would think you would have included every film nominated that year with Mother India. We would have been pretty perplexed, but the fact that you included no American film would be nominated for foreign film at the Academy Awards. That's why it was too easy. For that one. But thank you so much for making it. Thank you for making it. We really appreciate any time anybody takes their time out, makes these games and send them to us. We never ask you to do that, but we always appreciate it when you do.  So if you'd like to send us a game for Bollywood, for any region, any language... No, it's your headphones.  Send it to the email in the description of every single video. Just make sure it's either in video or slideshow format. Please. The videos you have of you and my mom. And let us know what are the games and stuff. Josh!


Another M&J adventure We're in Myrtle Beach We are in Myrtle Beach. So we ended up I know where the last vlog left off I said there was a part two well we left Marlene's and Originally we were supposed to fly out of Marlene's to Orlando, I mean leave Marlene's and go to Orlando and then fly from Orlando We had planned to go to Myrtle Beach Of course none of that was our original plan because originally we were just going to do two weeks in Florida and beat around and you know visit the West Coast of Florida then the East Coast of Florida then fly back home from the West Coast of Florida Yeah, just kind of enjoy Florida. Yeah, and then we got a offer on our office condo that we own in at home and We had decided and this probably be boring for anyone that's not into real estate But we had explored and looked at doing a 1031 tax exchange Which is what we ended up doing with that condo if anyone wants to know more details about that Just leave me a message and I'll I'll answer it in the comments But so we are now because we're doing the 1031 tax exchange We decided well after some investigation We would look at Florida properties and we would look at properties in South Carolina and So we did some online research and we are now here in South Carolina So what we did is we canceled our flight out of Orlando, Florida We decided to keep our rental car and we drove all the way in one day to Atlanta So we ended up visiting and it was really awesome. I'm gonna close some photos here So you to see we ended up visiting with Jay's son Justin his wife Tamara Stayed at their place and we just had a blast. We just kind of edged out We went out to dinner one night They treated us to a marvelous home-cooked meal one other night and then we did some historic What was the name of that park we went to Kenesaw Mountain Kenesaw Mountain? We watched a film very historic battle there and the whole the whole nine yard So it's really awesome. So as you can see some of the photos here We posed by a cannon and it was just really lovely to be able to spend some time Not planned we we changed everything on a pivot but just to spend some time and And be able to be with Justin and Tamara. It's beautiful. And then we drove To here and now we are house hunting. Yeah, we're just kind of looking around this complex And of course I got people right behind me. I'll stop filming now and I'll pick up in a little bit Yeah, but they say the bikes get ruined because of the moisture. Oh, yeah, you'd need to have them inside So these are three stories three stories overlooking Whatever a golf course or a pond or something. This isn't the longs, right? And yeah, this is Suncon colony. Did you say there was one for sale in here? Yeah, there is I don't know the address or nothing, but if I remember correctly it's first floor and Which was anything spectacular? So We're looking at another unit. We looked at a unit yesterday, right, honey He's texting. Yeah, we did. We looked at another unit and it was down in Berkshire forest Yeah, and now we're up in To below up by Aberdeen Country Club really pretty area does flood But I think we're far enough away from the flood because she said it was way down there But all those single-family homes floods out there by the road We'll find out so we've had a totally exciting crazy crazy trip and if you've been watching part one Which I'll make sure I link you saw that we were in Florida and all of that stuff And then we got here to South Carolina. We've been house hunting. So You saw some of those clips. We have made an offer on a home But we have no idea if it's going to be accepted keep your fingers crossed But the most exciting news is who is going to be popping into the frame any moment I'm sure you guys recognize her. It is the lovely lovely Sheila I cannot even express how many people they've said oh when you see Sheila say hi How Sheila what Sheila doing, you know, because we kind of like, you know, we've been buddies for how long Buddies and then we met in real life. We've been at Sheila's place here.  Oh, we're a little bit crazy. We've gone out to dinner I'm gonna include some includes some photos from when we went out to dinner. Where did we go barefoot bed? No Broadway at the beach wall burgers wall burgers. Oh my god. We had the best hamburgers there was awesome So we did that we walked around it was gone down cold. Oh, it was cold You can see as though they were like hovering as we're trying to smile for the camera it dropped It seemed like 20 degrees in 20 minutes. Oh my gosh has it ever so Sheila Everyone always says how is Sheila? She's fine.  I'm not I'm doing hardly anything to my skin. I've been preoccupied for a couple of months So the skin is just been whatever I slap on it. Yeah, but you have a routine, don't you? What do you what products have you been using lately I clean with the inky list out bombs bomb cleanser and then I use The inky list vitamin C and then Peter Thomas Rothwater cloud. Is that the is that the cleanser I used last night? Yes, so that's the one thing when you get together with your fellow YouTube beauty creators is we share makeup Wigs when I was with Marlene some of you saw that we share makeup. We talk about all our little Beauty tips and secrets and all that. Yeah Anything right so you've been well you've been okay. I Had me replacing in October and it was it was a little rough But it it went well and you you look fantastic and it was in October and here it is January and look how well you're doing Yeah, she puts me to shame. She jumps up from the chair. She walks around Haven't done any jumping. Oh my gosh, Sheila. So are you gonna come back to YouTube? Do you think never say never, right? Never say never I just Yeah My makeup is the same my skincare is very minimum. I haven't I Don't know that I have a lot to add most of my time during the pre-days of smell in the yard in the garden That's sort of my passion now in the garden. So maybe maybe a garden video. Well, I could do a garden video I just don't know if people are interested in seeing my tomatoes and cucumbers You you might be surprised you might be surprised that people are interested in the same but but I still hear from a lot of my Awesome subscribers and I miss you. I communicate with a lot of you and I love you all Yeah, she she we do I get a ton of messages really people always saying say hi to Sheila And then I posted it on Facebook the album and I posted photos of Sheila and I hit people there saying oh Sheila So people are recognizing you and it's just been a wonderful wonderful trip So I hope that Jay and I when we fly back, which is going to be soon to cold snowy, New Hampshire That we will be homeowners and we're looking forward to having some Carolina having new South Carolina neighbors It will just be oh can you imagine some trouble we can get into? So we we really enjoyed having money and Jay down here with us And we we look forward to the day that they're 20 minutes away and not 14 hours that would be awesome because we we've been looking at condos Very very close to where Sheila lives and we've made an offer on one I think I mentioned that so waiting to hear but we wouldn't be moving down here full-time for you know At least a couple of years, but we'd be visiting and we have a place to hang our hat so to speak So we are super excited about the potential and we just love the area So yeah, and of course I love my Sheila I'm so happy to see you. It's been awesome. It's been too long. So good. So it's been too long too long It's been how many years three? It seems like about 17 And it hasn't been it hasn't been that long But it seems like it because when you have such a good friend that lives so far away It just it feels like forever since you've seen them. Yeah, we talk. I was gonna say we talk most every day on Boxer is that what you call it boxer? Yeah, so we kind of talk and and text message And so we keep in touch all the time But to be here in person to do touchy-feely share makeup. That's that's the super special thing Nothing else compares absolutely So I will obviously update this maybe if there's more or maybe they'll be pop three I don't know but I probably have a lot of footage from before we got here and then being here So I'm gonna put this vlog together and thank you all for watching and you have to do it You have to do another part to tell them whether or not your offer was accepted. Yeah, huh? I might have to we'll say maybe there'll be a pot three. Will you be my neighbor? I would love to be your name and I want mr. Roger said will you be my neighbor?  It would be so much fun. It'd be so much fun Awesome. Thank you everyone for watching and I'll see you in my next vlog. Bye. Bye


Hello, and welcome back here to the channel. I'm evil rabbit. We're here on drift 21 as you can see the z There's got some new wisefab style in the front and as you can see there's a Little v8 in there, so we give you running some drift 31 here today So make sure you all made also should be the all of which found in the description box below So we're gonna get our wheel back on in there. We're gonna clean up our shop. Goodbye to all the parts So we did put the z in with a v8 Basic v8 and we're gonna go run it Today and we're gonna do some challenges and we're going to try and change up tracks and go to Finish off some of these tracks if we can we don't have any of these done So we're gonna start with the solo run in the v8 z white white. Oh wait. Why can't we can we not run the z? I want to adjust my Steering angle. That's what we want. Oh, I believe the car might be a little bit too powerful to run this challenge So we're gonna have to maybe bump up to a higher challenge Yep, so we're gonna bump up to a higher challenge for the z. We are on the full fan tech set up So for all the z's way more powerful Did fail it because we did not complete that challenge. So we're going to have to readjust that here And see if we can't get a better challenge with the z And miss that one if we did is much more powerful now with the v8 in there from if you remember last time We got to try and get that third clippings of them. We're gonna keep trying it again so we can get it we are on stock tires and Stock suspension. We just have the ankle kit in the front. I might miss it I don't understand that. I don't comprehend why we're actually missing that run On an angle when we get to it We have 4 queers. So we are gonna change up views. Maybe we'll try it in a different view You see you master dash. We got it this time Just need to be in first-person view in order to get that better there we go now we completed it So let's go back to a previous challenge because We did not complete these ones Just so I want definitely a very fun game It's a good chill laid-back truth game. We missed the last clippings though We need to be in third gear. Definitely give that another retry. So You know what? We did better in first-last time so we go first-first this time. That's not gonna Huh That what we need to hang out wider and downshift Definitely very challenging in this car right now. I totally miss that zone too. I have definitely not Having the best time right now on this challenge Like how we completed the harder challenge Not this one. I keep trying to hook that in way too early So if you guys are playing drift 21, let me know down in the comment section down below What cars you have there we go now we got it We did complete that one with a silver trophy. We didn't get gold, but you know what it's fine We're gonna go to previous challenge. This one looks slightly easier Of course, we're gonna run it in first-first or third while that's we need to probably be in fourth gear there It'd be in fourth gear for that first section. So we're going to retry that There was not the gear we need to be in so drift 21 With the SDA season coming to a close we're playing some other stuff So let me know down in the comments what you guys would like to see here on the channel for future content Try to get it third We need to add some grip your tires Maybe some wheel spaces things like that to this car because I feel like that would probably help us out Still missed it. Ah So definitely struggling a little bit, but you know got to fine-tune this we do probably need your suspension and things like that Make this car a little bit better That's what we wanted to do. Oh now. I think we got them all now. We completed it. Oh challenge failed Why oh? We didn't get enough points So we're gonna go to another previous challenge where it seems to be getting easier and easier, but we seem to be failing a Lot more So if you guys want to keep seeing just what we want here on the channel, let me know down in the comments So we're gonna go check real quick See if we can find anybody online real quick Maybe get some tandems here to end this episode off cuz challenges not doing the greatest down We're gonna have to fine-tune the Z more so I can say make sure you guys Let me know down in the comment section down below what you guys Want to see more here on the channel with the SDA regular season done We are now all of competitions about how to go to multiplayer I think it's Go to multiplayer there it is and There's no servers So nobody is on any servers or anything like that. So unfortunately that is going to be a fail, but We go to single player we go to Free run and do a track That I would like to run But we gotta get a bunch of trophies to unlock tracks way forward trophies So we're gonna continue to progress in this But I want to just come out here and rip the Z in a free mode So we can get a little bit of a shakedown and see what I need to adjust on it Michigan has found me an all-social meteorology found in the description box below Some grip and maybe some better Suspension but I feel like the 450 some horsepower that it has is a good base in this car right now Static camera. We got to get the drift cam going So I hope you guys enjoy this episode here at a drift 21 in the ZVA powered now with some Angle kits in the front do some more modifications to it Let me know what kind of cars you guys are running here in the game As always, I thank you guys for coming back and watching I'm evil rabbit. See you guys


I am Gene Dinkins Jr. I serve as chair for the board and I'll be serving as chair for today's meeting. At this time I'd like to introduce the other members of the board. To my left is Marcellus Primus, to my right is Catherine Finner, John Gignard, and Celia McIntosh. Okay, we'd also like to introduce the staff that assist the board. We've got Hope Hastie, the zoning administrator, Erica Hyen, deputy zoning administrator, and Skye Robinson Barnes. The board is charged with hearing applications for special exceptions, variances, and administrative appeals. All testimony is recorded for the record, and anyone wishing to speak will need to be sworn in and come to the podium to speak. No testimony can be taken from the floor. When you come to the podium, please state your name and please speak clearly into the microphone because this meeting is being recorded. Members with cases before the board are allotted a presentation time of ten minutes. This time does not include any questions asked by the board or staff regarding the case. Any member of the public may address the board in intervals of three minutes or five minutes if by a spokesperson for an established body or group of three or more. The applicant then has five minutes for rebuttal. The board reserves the right to amend these cases, excuse me, the board reserves the right to amend these procedures on a case-by-case basis. All right, those of you who plan to speak must be sworn. So if you're here as an applicant or here to speak in any case, please stand at this time and raise your right hand. Again, if you're an applicant or would like to speak in any case, please stand at this time. Okay. Do you affirm or attest that the testimony you will give today is the truth and nothing but the truth? Okay. Thank you. All right, at this time, we'll turn the meeting over to staff. Good afternoon. We'll start with the consent agenda. And the first item on the consent agenda is the approval of the June 2, 2022 minutes. Next item on the consent agenda is 3619 Duncan Street. It is 2020-0024-V, variance to the side yard setback standard for an addition. The second item on the consent agenda is 2022-0025-SE, 1326 Bush River Road, a special exception request to permit a warehouse use. And the third item on the consent agenda, or the fourth item, sorry, is 2022-0026-V, 1716 Ogden Street, the variance request to the maximum fence height standard. At this time, does anyone, would anyone like to remove a case from the consent agenda? And I'll add that goes for the public as well. All right, don't see any, so at this time, let's ask for a motion, please. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda subject to staff comments. Thank you. All right, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, very good. Motion passes. Okay. Moving to the regular agenda, we only have one item on the regular agenda this afternoon. It's 2022-0027-SE, 2312 Liberty Street, and it's a request for a special exception to establish a daycare facility. And the applicant is here to speak. Okay. Good afternoon. Please state your name. Yes. My name is Tynetta Thomas, and we are wanting to start a daycare center at 2312 Liberty Street. It's a family-owned property. It will be fully regulated by DSS. They have to approve everything that goes on from how many kids allow, the structure of the inside, the structure of the outside, the playground, the parking, everything is regulated by DSS. It will only be from the hours of about 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, no weekends. The children will only be in the backyard, nobody in the front yard. Parking, it's already like a two-car parking garage there or parking carport. We plan on removing that carport and the tree next to it to extend that for employee parking. As far as drop-off and pick-up, they'll be able to park behind employee cars as well as right in front there to just be like quick two-minute drop-off or pick-up. There is a speed bump right below the outside of the fence, so traffic is fairly slow doing at that area. I don't know. Okay. Well, thank you for coming and thank you for your testimony. So the application has 13 criteria which we're asked to judge the case on. In fact, we can only grant approval for the special exception if it's been proved that we can meet these criteria. So I didn't see as a part of the packet where you answered these questions. Is it included? Hope? Do you know? Have you seen the answers? I don't have specific questions. I mean, sorry. Answers to the criteria. To the criteria. So we have two options in order to move forward because, again, that's what we're asked. So I guess we have two options. We could talk about them now. You could run through them. We don't have to read the questions. You could just go one through 13. Or if you need more time to think about it, we could defer the case until next month and you could submit it. I looked at it. Very good. I didn't know that you answered. We do. We have to have that because those are the criteria that were asked to judge the case based upon. So we have to have answers to these. I signed. I thought my signature was saying that. Sure. If you look closely, it says on a separate piece of paper, please describe how the proposed use complies. So we just asked you, if you just start with, you can just say number one and just give us a couple of cents paragraph as ammunition, if you will, for why we should approve this special exception request. So I guess as long as you guys approve it, it will be in compliance with the zoning district. You know, that's up to you guys, I believe. Number two, the complies with all applicable use specific standard in article four. Yeah, it's all, it all be regulated by DSS. So if that's under the use regulations, then it won't be messing with any neighbors. As far as the traffic at number three, it'll be very, like I said, slow traffic, it staggered drop off and pick up because it's as the parents go to work or get off work. Number four, adequate provisions are made for parking. I told you guys that we'll be expanding the parking area. Number five, central adverse, there will be no noise lights, maybe children playing in the backyard at a lot of times. I can provide the neighborhood with my schedule at that time. If anybody wants that to know exactly when the kids will be outside and they'll only be in the backyard. It's a commercial property right behind this property. So it won't be interfering with residential neighbors. Number six, yeah, if anything, it'll improve the aesthetic character of the area because we'll be repainting the outside and, you know, making it look as nice as possible for a business there. So it'll be improvements to there. There will be no nuisance. It is just everybody, everything will be indoors except for outside play. It'll only be a few employees, myself, and about two or three other employees. So it's not like a huge facility. DSS, they have to measure the square footage of the home as well as the rooms inside, and they'll give us a lot of students that will be able to accept. So it won't be 20 plus that is not allowed. Yeah, it won't be detrimental to the, like I said, if anything, it'll be an improvement to the neighborhood. Again, that's all up to you, to you all. I believe it's appropriate. I believe it'll be an asset to the neighborhood is a lot of kids in that neighborhood and, you know, anything that we can do to help the community want to start it will be, you know, we'll be willing to do that as far as, you know, even during the summer times, if we have abundance of food because the meals are provided, they have grants and stuff provided by the state and government. So if we have an abundance of food and the neighborhood children or anybody in the neighborhood needs it, we'll, you know, we'll be supplying that instead of throwing it away, you know. It's definitely compatible with the character. We'll not have an adverse impact on land values, if anything, because of commercial property there to increase their assets and the properties of their homes. I would hope it doesn't adversely affect the public entrance. We are looking to help the community, not bringing down in any way. We want to provide childcare for a neighborhood that is not, it does not have a lot of childcare in that neighborhood. It's a church daycare like around the corner, but it's no small daycares in that area. So it's like, you know, so we want to help as much as possible. We don't want to be cost trouble for anyone. Well, thank you for running through those. I know it's kind of a pain, but we have to get those on record because those are the criteria that we're asking just the case on. So I appreciate you taking the time and giving us your thoughtful answers. Thank you very much. So at this time, let's, let's ask some questions. Any specific questions for the alphabet? I mean, the obvious question is definitely the number of children that you would have, which equates to the number of cars.  And that's right. Right. So this property, it has a long fencing area. So it won't be blocking neighbors' driveway at all. As far as the exact number of children, unfortunately, this is the first step for DSS before they come out and do anything. So they haven't measured. So I can't give you an exact number of children, but I would say a minimum of 13 and a maximum of about 20, 21 kids. And it'll be a staggered drop off time. So it'd be parents come in at different times. It'll never be like a backup of traffic. Daycare? No, none in the neighborhood at all. Like I said, the church, there's a church they provide daycare for the area. But that's, it's not on the same road. It's not in the neighborhood directly, but it's not far. But there's no small like in home daycares or anything in the area. And I surveyed the neighbors on Liberty Street going all the way on this specific street and up past the stop sign. And most neighbors are okay with it. I did get a one rebuttal, but then she said that she didn't think it was safe because of traffic and she believes it should be a sidewalk there. But the children, they won't be in the front at all. And I believe a sidewalk there would be more of a hindrance. Since we're talking about the cars and stuff, I think that would be an adverse effect, that's more than a positive effect. But like I said, the children will all be in the backyard at times of play. And outside of times of play, they'll be inside the home. In the, right on Liberty Street, what is that where there's a tree? There's a light colored thing. Is that a parking area or what is that? All right, yes ma'am, that's the parking, that's the parking that is now. That's the car park you're talking about. And then we're going to even expand that more. I see. Yeah, because it's like that parking area, it already fits two cars there. But it's a carport. Without that carport, another car can even get there. So we plan to remove that carport so that it'll be enough room for all employees to park inside the yard. So employees won't have to park on the street at all. Will there be enough room for people to pull off the road to drop their children off? Yes ma'am, so they'll be able to come all the way up and then the cars can park behind the employees' cars as well. Okay, okay. What ages are the children that you anticipate? From one to four. One to four. Do you have a fenced in yard here? Yes, yes sir, it's completely fenced in, and then we plan to put a privacy fence on the back as well. Okay, good, good. What is the business behind you? It's nothing, it's like it was a old car wash or something, so now it's just a vacant lot. Do you have staff identified already or and how many do you propose you think you'll need? So it'll be myself and at least two other teachers and then there will be a director. So there'll be about four staff. The director, she's been working in childcare for 20 plus years. She's an older woman and so she has lots of experience and she'll be working hand in hand with myself. But I wanna, I could be the director, but I'd rather be hands on with the children, at least for the start. So I'll hire her to come on to oversee things because I don't wanna be double booked trying to teach and oversee. Have you ever done this before? Work with children or I haven't owned a today care before, but I've worked with children for a long time. I have a psychology degree, so I did a lot of child site concentration while I was in school. And then all of my internships was with children, from working with children with autism to disadvantaged youth in their neighborhoods. And since then I was a director over after school program with Big Blue Marble right before COVID. I've worked at my church, daycare church, children's church type thing. And so yes, I've been working with children a long time. That's where my heart is. It sounds like you've been preparing for this for your whole life, really. Yeah. It's good. Okay, any other questions for the applicant? All right, thank you very much for your presentation. Thank you. Thank you. All right, at this time we'd like to move into the public input portion of the application. Or would any member for the public like to speak on behalf of this matter? Okay, please approach. I live at 2315 Liberty Street. That's right in front of the house. That's what I was talking about. I've lived there for 20 years.  It's known bunk. So you get all the way down to where it stops lying at. That's where the bunk at. Up the hill, it's known bunk. But on the next block, it's a bunk. So I have noticed throughout my years there, people have, they come down that hill. It's a hill. They're flying down that hill. My problem is the hill. You know, that's a dangerous hill. I have noticed people hit people houses on that hill a couple of times. Then I hit people cars on that hill. I have noticed people hit people on that hill. It is very anxious. She's going to be on the right-hand side. I'm on the left-hand side. They're coming down that hill. And they're actually flying down that hill. When they hit that bunk, they go up. And I have noticed that so many times. That's a dangerous area to even have kids. You know, and when she's saying that the pocket space, it's only two cars can get up there in that pocket space. And the half of it is going to be on the grass. One car is going to be on the grass of it. You know, it's not a big pocket space area.  You're going to have a car there and another car. But it's not that a lot of cars can get up in there. It's just two cars, maybe. And then you're going to rest of it and it's going to be on the street. And that hill is very dangerous. It's no pocket space. What she's going to do is to improve the house, improve the yard. I don't know. But it's going to take a lot to improve the house and the yard, you know. A lot. So that's what I want to say. Okay. Well, thank you. That's great. And I think it's too dangerous when they involve kids. You know, that's my opinion with kids and being involved. Because, you know, even if somebody might let somebody out at the garage, somebody might have their child on the street trying to get out. You know, and cars coming down. That's just dangerous. Okay. Well, thank you for your testimony. Anybody else? Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I'm Leon Corley. I live in the Colonial Heights neighborhood. And my wife and I, we purchased our home there in 1966. Wow. We're a long-term homeowner. And when we moved there, most of the residents lived there with homeowners. But, you know, some folk transition and things like that. We're still there. Now, I think this, this big hillstone would be detrimental to our community. The reason I say that, Ms. Shirley, just, you know, liberate on the hill, on Liberty Street. Be humped down in there or stop sign. And they run that a lot of times. And let me tell you what happens on Liberty Street. If you're coming from both streets, going toward 7 to 7, outfowl road. When you get, when you cross Beltline, you can't make a left turn on Marshall Street. So it's going to take you down to Liberty Street. So that's where the traffic goes now on Liberty Street. And we have no control over that. Even though we had a speedhunt, we fought 20-something years to get speedhumps. And we only had them probably five years. And a lot of cars disregard that. And so, Liberty Street is a cut-through street. Cut-through street. So we have a lot of traffic cars cutting through, you see. And when we talk about parking for the Dickel Center, like Ms. Shirley said, to the hill, or in the flat, they're going to end up parking side of the street, side of the road. And it's not enough space to get, or it will be a complete light of the road. That's an excellent way to not happen if that's located there. And also, as we deal with that, and the speeding car through there, the community does not support this special exempting, not the other value of city council person. When you get special exempting, if they get that, they can make any kind of changes. And the neighborhood would have no say so what happens. And so, we've got to deal with the parking. The parking is not sufficient. And you've got to park beside the road, and you can't get completely out of the road. Now, are you going to discharge or pick up children? That's not safe. That's not safe. I wouldn't want my child, you know, in that facility with no more provision made than that. And the fencing, the place is in disrepair now.  If I could have the support of my neighborhood, of the neighborhood, that had not happened. It's in terrible shape. It's in terrible shape. And we believe there's not enough space provided for those children to make a safe discharge, a safe interest to the cause when the family come to pick them up. So, there will be an increase in noise. All that I just said earlier as well would be a disaster to our neighborhood. I don't want to say it all afternoon, but the neighborhood do not support this happening in our neighborhood. Well, thank you for your testimony. We appreciate it. Thank you. Hello, my name is Councilman Ed McDowell. And of course, the subject matter that we're talking about today is in my district. And of course, one of the things that I do when there are issues, whether it's zoning or any other issues, what I try to do is to visit every one of the sites just to make sure that things are in order. What I had an opportunity to do was to visit 2312 Liberty Street. And of course, I came in off of Colonial Drive. And of course, as you know, that runs up to the stop sign to Fair Road. One of the things I decided to do was to not only look at the topography of the property, but also to see what kind of traffic was going through that piece through Liberty Street, either coming from Colonial to Farrow or Farrow to Colonial. And I observed that there were an inordinate number of cars going through there. One of the things that I also observed at the property is that it sits in a dip. And of course, it would not allow, in my estimation, a number of cars to come on whether or not you're handing off kids into the center, creating a log jam, a log jam. If you're coming off Colonial this way and you stop there, there is a gated area there. There is a vacant lot on the backside. There is a large seated steps going straight up. It just does not seem like a way and a conducive way to bring children into an environment where there may be some harm, perhaps, to take place. Please understand this note. We are all open for business. We love small businesses. No question about it. But we do not want to put our children in perhaps a situation where harm could possibly occur on that street. It is there are no sidewalks there, either side. There is one speed hump at the very end of that street. I don't see any obvious parking there. So as I support the Columbia Heights, Colonial Heights community in their resistance to this project. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Councilman McDowell, could you, I have a question for you if you wouldn't mind. So we've heard from the applicant that she is going to demolish some stuff in the front yard. And she's not doing it yet because she doesn't have the approvals, right? So she has a chicken and egg problem, as you can imagine. Now, when you were over there looking at the site, did you see if she demolished that carport in the front, did that not give enough room? Her testimony is that it would be giving enough room. In my estimation, and I'm not an architect of any sort, but just in my rudimentary estimate, it would not give enough space for safety purposes. Are there any traffic calming measures that you as the city council person could recommend to, it sounds like this is a pretty bad cut through just in general? Well, one of the things, of course, this is an exception. This is not in our wheelhouse. If it was a zone, a change in the zoning issues, it would be in our wheelhouse. Sure. We would probably look at some, and I think the basic criteria, the questions that you asked, of course, it would certainly be good to see those in written form just to make sure and to ensure if it were a zone in issues to make sure that we looked at those issues, and we looked at them forensically to make sure that we were doing the right thing. So if I hear you correctly, the biggest concern you have is the concerns are traffic and parking. Well, traffic and parking and the safety of the safety of kids. I heard the applicants say that there are a lot of kids there with one speed hump there, and that's at the very end of the street. I find it a little bothersome, especially if you're coming off of Colonial, because it sort of does this as you approach the property. It could very well involve a traffic jam there, unloading kids into the proposed center, I think. If they could, if it is possible, I mean, I don't know, I haven't seen the site, and I don't have a really good site plan to look at. If it were possible for all of the unloading and loading and unloading to happen off the street, then I guess that throws it back to you as a city council person to propose any traffic coming to just slow down the general flow of traffic through there. Would that not be? Yeah, one of the things that I would critically ask is that engineers come out and look at that piece of property to see topographically if it's the right age in terms of coming off of the Colonial Drive side. Because when you come off the Farrell Road side, it's relatively kind of goes up like this, Colonial Drive drops down. In my estimate, the persons who live in that area know this better than I, of course, because they've been residents there. But if it was in my preview, of course, I'm siding with the residents. Well, we do have an email that we got with a petition signed by how many, I don't have it in front of me, how many were there who signed the petition? Five or six residents of Liberty Street who do support the project. Would I support it? No, no, there are five or six residents who sent us a, we've got an email petition, a letter in support, signed by five or six of the residents of the area who just aren't here today. On Liberty Street. On Liberty Street, correct. Let's be careful not to get into board discussion. Yeah, yeah. I'm starting to get enough information here. But I understand what you're saying. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay. I appreciate your testimony very much and appreciate you attending the meeting today. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Anybody else like to speak? She said they have about five that signed the petition. I just wanted to show you the ones that we have the sign against it. On Liberty Street and we have High Street that's in that area and we also have Avenue Street in that area. And would you like to see? Yes. This is very, very important. Please give them to Hope. Thank you. Hope, you were not aware of these until just now. Okay. Yeah. I think we need to make sure these are a part of the record. Someone can summarize for the record what's in there after we get a chance to look at them. In fact, maybe the more appropriate thing would be to give them the Hope and let you look at them for us and just tell us briefly what's in there so we don't all look at them and so we get a feel for how many of them. You want me to read through them? I don't know about read through them but if you could just glance at them, that's right. That way we get it on the record and everyone understands because this is very important. No, not from the floor. Hang on a second, okay. Okay. So again, just for the record, we've received at least a few members of the public who have signed petitions in opposition of this request. So we're asking the zoning administrator to sort of tally them up for us so it becomes a matter of the record and to let us know what we've got here because none of us has seen this until just a second ago. It looks like 10 residents on Liberty Street. Okay. In opposition. In opposition. A four on Adams Street. 11 on Hight Street. Okay. Thank you, Hope. I think that's very important. Okay. Would any other members of the public like to speak on this matter? Please approach. All right. You've already spoken, hadn't you? All right. We'll give you just a second. Okay. No, no, no. You go ahead but I just mean, no, please approach the podium. Yes. I'm just, just pointing out that you've already had your, your time. So we want to be respectful. You came today. So just make it brief, please. Okay. Go ahead. What I want to say that where I live at coming out of here and I live on the left hand side, my house is like a slope down the headway for me to get out my driveway. Either I, most of the time I parked my car going down. So actually I have to back my car up and I have to study what's cause behind me to make sure they're not coming and going, coming and going. And she has to be out and they letting kids out on the side. I'm just letting you know. Just actually down the hill. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate your time. Thank you for coming today. Okay. Do we have any other members of the public who'd like to speak on this matter? All right. I don't see any. This time the applicant, you have five minutes or so for a bottle. If you'd like to approach and respond to some of these comments, the floor is yours. Sounds like to me that most of the issues is coming with the traffic and the parking. But if all of these community members, all of these neighbors have the same concern, then it seems to me that they would just slow down going through that area because it's only going to be drop off. And like I said, it will be in the yard. Once we remove that car porch and the tree, it will be enough for employees to park and people to park behind. But, you know, it does take a village. So if this village that opposed was just slow down, I don't see a problem outside of that because like I said, everything else would be in the home and in the backyard. One thought I had as we were listening to the testimony, most of it against this proposed special exception, if you had some sort of a site plan showing us what you proposed to do, it might help prove to the neighborhood that you could contain the children within the property and that you could park the children within the property because really we're just looking at an overhead aerial photo and though we believe your testimony, it would be nice to see it on some sort of a plan. Have you given any thought to that? I have because that's a requirement actually of DSS. Once, but like I said, zoning was just step one, but once I submit my application to start this childcare center, we actually have to have an architectural plan to submit to DSS of everything changes that would have to be made on the property. So that's a part of starting this daycare actually. I don't understand, but it may be that would help you get through a special exception request because they do bring up some valid points. I mean, from the testimony that I've heard today, I myself am not sure that the site does work, but I think if you could show us a plan that showed how you plan to contain these children on the site and how to park and to back up and to keep them out of the roadway because you're right, these traffic issues, they exist whether you're here or not, okay? But at the same time, you are here. And so if we had a plan showing carport to be demolished in a few spaces striped in front of the property, it would probably help your cause. I don't know that we have to have that, but it would help. Absolutely. So you could defer right now if you wanted to and then bring it back to us with that site plan that would show us, I think. Yeah, and my question really is if you extend that parking area, then it's still cars after drop off. I'm assuming backing back out on the Liberty, which with it being a cut through, I'm concerned that's going to create a traffic issue, which is one of the potential issues. But if you had some sort of site plan that showed some sort of circular drop off or something like that, then maybe it's a less of a... Yeah, I don't think it'll be able to make a roundabout in the, because it's just like it is a yard space outside of the parking area.  So I'm not, you know, it's for the community.  So I understand, you know, like I said, we can do everything we can to make it a safe, but ultimately it would depend on public and, you know, how people choose to abide by the speed limits on that road. And that's something that no matter what we do, we can't control. So I mean... All right. So let's just, just to be clear then, okay. So you don't, you really don't want to go that option with maybe, you know, making a site plan and bringing that back.  So even with extended... I don't know that you have to have necessarily a roundabout, but John brings up a good point. The point criteria number three is the proposed special exception will not have a substantial adverse impact on vehicular traffic or vehicular and pedestrian safety. So John brings up a point.  Does somebody live there? Like, and we did live there at one point. We had the backup out. Yeah, but I think the difference here is you live in there with a residential use, which is a normal, maybe you go to work, maybe you go to the grocery store, you know, a couple of times a day versus running a daycare facility with potentially 20 children coming there. I think that's a big, I think that's a big increase. And I think that's one of the reasons why in a residential zone area like this, you have to have a special exception to do a more intensive use like this. So we will discuss it. Is there anything else you'd like to say? Certainly appreciate your testimony. I have a question. So if they were to like part, like when they come in, if they were to part like south, please, I don't know if you could give me suggestions. Right, very good. That's what you would hire either an architect or a civil engineer or someone to help you with. We're not even necessarily looking for an engineered plan or an architectural plan. It doesn't have to be stamped, sealed, signed. But I just think for the purposes of this discussion, it would help your case an awful lot if you could prove to us some of these concerns of the neighborhood that you had an idea how to mitigate them rather than just, well, I'm going to keep everyone in there and we're going to pull into the carport. I just, I'm not sure that's good enough. I think I'd like to see, what I would like to see is a drawing can be pretty crude, but kind of drawn to scale. It shows the striping for where, how many parking spaces you're going to have and where people would drop things off. And it would be possible for them to come back out somehow heading out, nose out instead of backing out if that's something that's a possibility. That's what I would want to see. So we'll just leave it to you. So here's where we are right now. We can discuss this as a board and we can vote and we'll see what happens. We don't know. We'll see what happens. Or you could defer it and take some time to try to think about how you might be able to do some things in the site to handle some of the neighborhood and board members' concerns. It's up to you. So you guys vote now? Or give you more time to work on it and come back to us at another date when you're, let's just call it a little more ready. I mean, that's no guarantee. Sometimes it may not work. It just might not be a site for it. But just wanted to, we've seen a lot of these cases. Just wanted to give you the option. If you need more time to think about this, you're welcome to it or we can discuss it and vote today. It's your call. So one question before I answer. If I was to defer, you guys are looking for the slotted parking spaces as well as a way for parents to drop off and leave out without having to back up. That's pretty specific. All we're looking for is some sort of argument that it will not have an adverse impact on vehicular traffic or pedestrian safety. And that adequate provisions are made for parking and loading and unloading. But we don't know exactly how that would be achieved. I'm saying that. However you have to do it. We don't have any real clear idea right now of whether or not you've done that. Whether or not that's possible. Right. And that's what I don't. I think it's pretty clear she hadn't, but anyway, but choice is yours. I guess more time. Okay. All right. That sounds good. All right. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Anything else today? That's all for today. All right. Do we have a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. Do we have a second? Second. Motion second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good luck with it. Okay. Anything else today? That's all for today. All right. Do we have a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. Do we have a second? Second. Motion to adjourn. Aye. All right. All right. Humble that. Very good. All right. All right. Humble that. Very good.