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Hello, you're watching give the people what they want today is June the 25th. We have it's me Prashant and Zoe from people's dispatch Hi Zoe and we are missing our comrade and friend Vijay Prashad who's right now at a very important meeting in Caracas in Venezuela We'll come to that of course in a few minutes like I said today is June 25th It's a very important day in India because it marks the anniversary the 46th anniversary of the imposition of the internal emergency and this was in 1975 during the prime ministership of Indira Gandhi Now this was a very problematic day very dark day for India's democracy Even now there are a lot of accounts of it, there are a lot of reports of how people suffered For nearly 21 months democracy was pretty much completely suspended in India and the administration happened to the women's and fancies of the prime minister and mainly her son Sanjay Gandhi as well For India which had become a democracy in 1947 this showed the extent of how easy it was to actually subvert this democracy and ever since then there's been a lot there were a lot of efforts immediately after those 21 months when Indira Gandhi was defeated to make sure that it would be far more difficult to do that Now of course we are in 2021 it's been 46 years later A lot of people over the past many years have been talking about the emergency a lot because for many of the people who lived to those days these days especially the past seven years under the BJP government of Narendra Modi these days remind them a lot of what happened between 1975 and 1977 those 21 months because while there has been no official declaration of emergency there has been no formal subversion of democracy so to speak What we do see in India of course is the fact that there has been a hollowing out of institutions there has been a huge lack of accountability there has been a suppression, there has been attacks, targeting of critics of the government Laws are passed without the consultation of those who are going to be affected despite opposition So what we are seeing right now in India is of course not a formal emergency but many have called it an almost maybe informal emergency where the processes of democracy are very much alive, elections are held, people go to vote there is technically a free press but many have raised the questions that are these actually fulfilling their roles when democracy can be subverted to the massive use of money power which is where there is no accountability when the press in various ways has been pressured is playing a very psychophantic role many press organizations playing a very psychophantic role towards the government then really the question arises in terms of how do you sort of, what is democracy? Democracy is when there are checks and balances in place when the will of the people is adequately reflected So all these are very much big questions that are before India today We are also moving towards another month of the farmer struggle I think I believe it's the seventh month and again same questions as the farmers who spend all these months on the outskirts of Delhi talking about issues of their livelihood but those in power really not listening to them really not concerned about them while the supporters of those in power call them anti-nationals, they call them terrorists same thing with for instance student activists who have been protesting for a better world so to speak for Hindu, Muslim, religious unity suddenly being declared terrorists suddenly being declared you know say authors of some kind of conspiracy to disrupt peace So a big challenge as far as India is concerned right now and I think every year on the anniversary of this emergency this is something progressive people who want to build a better India remember this anniversary and ask themselves the same question that how do we make sure that those difficult days when so many people were in jail when there's a complete separation of democratic rights how do we make sure that those do not happen again So it's something to I think this reflect on in this show because this is a show where we talk about people's movements in the present of the past and their organic links Speaking about anniversaries of course another major anniversary being marked in Venezuela right now which comes from a very different political trajectory Kali's with it a very different sense of hope, a very different sense of promise for the world Zoe tell us what's happening in Venezuela right now where we're in Yes well yesterday June 24th was the 200 year anniversary of the Bicentennial of the Battle of Carabao and so this battle was one of the crucial battles in the struggle for liberation from the Spanish monarchy in the northern part of South America Simon Bolivar defeated the Spanish royalist troops some kilometers west of Caracas, Venezuela and this is you know in today's time when this region the same region of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador you know continue to face the forces of imperialism and the forces that want to dominate and colonize these lands this battle and this anniversary is you know all the more important this was not the definitive you know anniversary of independence of liberation from Spanish rule but it marked a very important defeat of these forces and so right now in Venezuela there are hundreds of social leaders you know activists trade unionists leaders in political parties from across the world you know we're talking Ghana lots of places in the Middle East North Africa Europe United States all across Latin America they're all gathered in Venezuela to commemorate this historic anniversary and to once again come together you know to manifest unity against imperialism against policies of the far right globally and using that kind of this you know incredible mystica and symbolism of the battle of Carabao to renew their efforts for unity and to fight against imperialism and so for the last four days people have been organized in different working groups you know discussing the battle of ideas and the importance of communication talking about women's issues and you know coming together again you know across people from across the world in different political formations to discuss what is the United People strategy to confront these topics and it's been really inspiring and really incredible and then yesterday when the when this bicentennial congress this global congress concluded there was also the 19th meeting of Alba Tesefe so as we know sorry there's a plane flying overhead right now but as we know you know Alba Tesefe is a platform the Bolivarian Alliance for People of our America which is you know was a big and important initiative of Hugo Chávez and Pierre Castro to create you know Latin American unity in the face of US imperialism and to create a space where countries in the region could come together for economic agreements for trade agreements and also for building political power and developing other projects in other areas so right now you know leaders again from across Alba countries from Bolivia from the Caribbean a lot of different Caribbean countries St. Vincent, Grenadine, Semenica various countries there have gathered in Caracas also to commemorate the Battle of Carraboa but to come together for of course this very important meeting of Alba Tesefe again in this this light of people's unity of course this is from the side of the government so we've had a lot of government leaders and they took really important strategic definitions on the key issues facing these countries right now which of course as we know the COVID-19 pandemic the region of Latin America has been very hard hit and of course you know with countries like Cuba with countries like Venezuela they have had the added challenge of dealing with the blockade in sanctions and yesterday again this has just been a really good week of news for Latin America because yesterday during the summit they announced that Venezuela would be buying I don't have the exact number in front of me but some millions of doses of Cuba's vaccine Abdullah so you know this is really showing the importance of having regional unity of building between left projects progressive projects and what does that mean how can that have you know actual material manifestations to better the lives of people and not depend on imperialist forces for their charity or for their kind of breadcrumbs that they're going to throw at these countries so really important time the battle for this anniversary has brought a lot of really you know incredible unity incredible developments in the region and I think that's it really and you know in that sense as I said the the the vaccine cooperation has been really important throughout the pandemic Cuba and Venezuela have also been working really closely with China and Iran to overcome you know everything that's been happening so I just wanted to hear Prashant what's happening in Iran we know there have been developments with regards to the US and their continued aggression there absolutely right because it's interesting that you mentioned that one of the aspects talked about in the series of seminars with a battle of ideas the importance of communication it's something we also truly believe in and it's also very clear that it's something that the United States is very worried about as well because over the past few days we got to know that about 33 domains including that of Press TV which is the Iranian news agency have been seized by the United States it's it's quite an unseemly site because you go to presstv.com and you have this glaring image which declares that this website has been seized by the it's because the domain name the US has control over that domain name Press TV is still functioning in at presstv.ir I believe but I think this raises a couple of important questions first of all you know the charge that's of course made is that the Iranians are spreading disinformation or misinformation whatever you call it of course what they mean in this context is that the Iranians were spreading information or publishing news which did not match the imperialist agenda of the US and there's really no other explanation of that fact because why would you go and seize the sites of you know very legitimate mainstream news organizations nobody is nobody has questioned that the Press TV for instance or Almasira TV which is run by the Houthis in Yemen they have provided very vital information about not only their own countries but about perspectives which almost never do not appear in the US mainstream media so despite all this talk about you know which the US and its functionaries are always happy to trot on about freedom of expression about the United States and the West being this kind of beacon of hope where people from oppressed countries suddenly come to speak up what we see is a very ugly kind of information grabs so to speak or a step in an information war where you just sort of do it to make a point and this is also especially depressing especially unfortunate because we do know that in Vienna right now over the past few weeks at least they have been talks to make sure that they were to try to find out how the US can come back to the Iran nuclear deal now yet again just we need to examine the situation because we have five or six countries sitting together to try to figure out how the US which walked out of the deal in 2018 can come back like which other country would be allowed this kind of luxury where you know you walk out of a deal and then you set conditions about how you think the deal is not bad and some years later once your government changes everyone has to sit together to figure out how you can come back and during all this time the people of Iran has suffered due to blockades due to sanctions we've read about how the COVID-19 situation in Iran was objectively worsened due to the kind of blockade and restrictions Iran at least and right now the Iranians and maybe the Russians the Chinese even the European countries are all working together to try to figure out how the US can come back how some kind of relief can be granted to the people in Iran and we have a step like this which just serves to vitiate the atmosphere Iran has a new president of course the United States and the West again going you know calling a referring to him as some kind of arch conservative and he may have whatever his politics is that's a different matter it's of course a far more nuanced matter than that but again we see this massive information war and a step like this is we talked about hybrid wars in the past which are waged against countries like Iran and Venezuela and Cuba and yet this is yet another example of a step like this where you just sees those domains so very unfortunate development we need to see how in the coming weeks whether this will impact the process in Vienna or not or you know whether this will lead to say a fresh stalemate because what the US sections of the US establishment would like is a fresh stalemate and it's a very simple reason because they want to expand the contours of the Iran nuclear deal so the deal was just about you know nuclear processing in Iran now they want to make it about ballistic missiles now they want to make it about the so called support Iran provides to various say groups various groups various legitimate organizations in the region which is Iran's business because it's a player in the region whereas one thing we often talked about in the past is how the US is not in West Asia but it continues to dictate terms in West Asia about how people should behave how countries should behave so all this pointing to a very dangerous trend you know there was some hope that it would get better after Trump left some in some ways it has maybe maybe on Yemen maybe in a couple of issues it has but the broad thrust of US policy still remaining the same towards Russia towards China towards Iran and for that matter towards Cuba as well and I think we saw a very good example over the past few days both of the kind of absurd policies the US is following and also support Cuba has so we're going to talk about what's been happening globally at the General Assembly and even otherwise yeah definitely I mean as I mentioned before it's been you know a good week in Latin America in terms of international solidarity and kind of a real show of strength and perseverance against US imperialism and so this week you know on Monday scientists in Cuba announced in a press conference that their vaccine the first Latin American vaccine the first anti-Covid vaccines be created in Latin America by Cuban doctors in Cuban laboratories of Dalla has 92.28% efficacy so that is really impressive and incredible victory I mean really just shows that even despite the blockade Cuba goes to all efforts to put the people first to put you know the growth and focus on science and technology on education on strengthening public institutions for the people's good and so this was obviously met with a lot of excitement and support and then on Wednesday was another historic day because it was the UN General Assembly and Cuba since 1992 has taken to the General Assembly to use it as a platform as it is of human rights of what should be you know respect international law to denounce the criminal blockade that is that it suffers under the United States and every year it's been presenting a resolution that essentially calls for an end to the embargo highlighting the devastating impacts that it has had not only on the economy because I mean just to say a number just in between April 2020 and December 2020 the blockade caused 3,586.9 million dollars of losses to the Cuban economy so that's a huge number I mean it's hard to even conceptualize because this is money that the Cuban government that the Cuban state that the Cuban people have lost because the United States does not agree with their government it does not agree with their policies but beyond I mean what that number also kind of says is that what does that mean for the impact on the lives of people and so this report they also outlines all of the impacts that it has had on the Cuban people access to healthcare access to timely service access to food you know all of these and the U.S. often says as it says in the case of Iran as it says in the case of Venezuela and of course as it says in the case of Cuba that this blockade that these sanctions that these unilateral coercive measures are not meant to be against the people but against the people in power but what we see in all of these cases as you mentioned in Iran as it is very clear in Venezuela and as it's clear in Cuba is that the people are the first to suffer that they suffer from lack of food so you know every year Cuba has taken to the UN General Assembly to pass to present a resolution which calls for the end of the U.S. embargo in the end of these measures and you know once again this measure was passed with almost unanimous support and I think what's really interesting which that many people have highlighted is that the only two votes against this resolution which is merely calling for respective international law basic basic you know rights of the Cuban people and its government to have autonomy and sovereignty the only two countries that voted against were Israel and the United States I think that's really telling especially given the current geopolitical situation and also to understand kind of the alliances that are created to maintain this domination the U.S. provides support to Israel and you know arguably a big part of you know why it's there in order for it to maintain its occupation of Palestine and its aggression against the neighboring countries and Israel is extremely ready to repay that favor I mean really it has no stakes in what happens in Cuba I mean of course Cuba has historically been one of the biggest defenders of the Palestinian cause and condemning the brutal Israeli occupation and human rights violations you know why else would they be voting against ending the U.S. embargo it's because they have clear allegiance to United States and are very ready to repay the United States for all its support in suppressing Palestinians so I mean this is again beyond it's a very important victory because it shows that the consensus is against the United States it's against its policy of genocide which is what they call the blockade one of the largest mass killings of people in history because this blockade has been going on for six decades so you know I think that's really important we have to highlight these victories we have to highlight these moments where it shows that the U.S. is isolated and you know it continues since its inception you know next week we have coming up both in Canada and the United States you know Independence Day where they you know created their bourgeois democracies and liberated themselves from colonial rule and you know both in the case of the United States and Canada there's a long history there beyond its actions overseas but of you know colonialism at home genocide at home and we've heard a lot of recent troubling reports from Canada Prashant can you tell us a little bit about that right so like you said it's I mean ironic because next week is Canada's so-called Independence Day but the key question here is of course yet another tragic discovery that has come up over the past few days which is that hundreds of unmarked graves have been found yet again of children yet again from a residential school so this is the second major discovery in the past few months we saw another incident where around 250 graves were discovered this time the number of graves is around 750 the number of children involved 600 this is it's atrocious it's depressing and it's it's almost difficult to explain because not explain difficult to conceive or for difficult to accept because you have say children hundreds and thousands of children who were taken from their parents children of various first nation communities in Canada who were taken from their parents and who were put in these schools many of these schools run by the Catholic Church of course and the whole point was to supposedly civilize them and this happened over decades you know up to the 1970s some of I think the last school of this sort we just call it Indian residential schools even the name is horrific it closed only in the mid 90s and children from across various communities taken into these schools separated from their parents separated from their culture there were multiple reports of torture of sexual abuse of physical abuse and so many deaths it's one of the most horrifying things these days there's been almost no accountability for most of these deaths even now the official numbers of the children who died are unknown the official numbers say it could be somewhere around 3000-4000 the actual numbers there was a truth and reconciliation commission which actually said that cultural genocide had been committed on the first nation on the people of the first nations on their children and the actual death count could be in about 6000-7000 of course it's still unknown the mass graves that were discovered there are in many of them there are no gravestones I believe which itself is a crime so in fact the Congress's first nation other first nation communities have said that they are treating these the sites of these mass graves as a crime scene because when you not only say give them the indignity of after all the indignity they suffered in life they do not even have the dignity of a name or recognition in death and I think this is common of course both to the in Canada it works in a particular way but the assault the genocide of first nation communities of indigenous communities very common across the western hemisphere colonialism at its most brutal people like to pretend that this was something that happened maybe hundreds or two hundred or two hundred years ago and that's something in the past we are sorry for it we didn't know better but that happened whereas what I think this shows is that many of these institutions continued and I think community leaders have pointed out that this is not something that is just somewhere in the distant past this is continuing today in terms of economic opportunities in terms of the discrimination that many of these communities face and I think that and I believe as far as I read we have seen media reports also the fact that survivors who have been fighting for compensation survivors who are fighting for these crimes to be recognized have been contested by the government so it's not even that despite all the voices that the liberal government might make in terms of how we are sorry and all that when it comes to the system they have been forced to fight pay legal fees to actually get the compensation that they deserve so I believe that this is definitely not the end of the story because these investigations are still going on after the investigation that in Kamloops residential school that let's discover 250 graves in May this one started and there could be many more such horrifying stories which come over the past few weeks we have seen media reports of some of the survivors of these schools talking about the treatment they face and these are heart-rending videos because you know they talk the kind of the indignity and basically how they were treated as less than human is very very difficult to listen to and the impact of this still very much continues in people's lives in the way governments function and we are talking about COVID-19 of course and last year we went to we went to the United States as we talked in the United States with representatives of the Navajo Nation as well who were talking about how even today the structural discrimination continues and I definitely do believe that I think we are going to see a lot more of this First Nation organizations definitely are going to mobilize for much more I think stronger response from these countries in terms of recognizing the crimes, the genocide that was committed so very very very difficult it's a story that's very difficult to read very difficult to write, very difficult to talk about and I think there is something that everyone across the world needs to follow to realize the true nature of colonialism and imperialism which continue today so yes that's something that definitely in the coming months we should be following up and you are watching give the people what they want and this is from people's dispatch and globetrotter we are going to do one more story which is again very connected to this global web of issues again from Latin America again a story of resistance as well because it's about bringing people into account bringing those into account Zoe what's happening in Brazil right now Yes well I mean you said it Prashant this is really the story of the moment it's about resisting a criminal government that refuses to favor the lives of the people that refuses to make any investments in safeguarding the lives of the people and this is the government of Boltonado you know since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic you know he's been the example of exactly what governments should not do I mean not only did he deny the severity of COVID-19 he called it a small flu he called for using a medicine that is not effective in COVID-19 and has continued to actually do this till this day you know and then since then once vaccine production started he actually has been blocking really important deals with the Brazilian government and pharmaceutical companies for the purchasing of vaccines this has come out recently investigations that the Brazilian senate has been carrying out in their investigation of Jared Bolsonaro and his you know responsibility in the high number of deaths in Brazil from COVID-19 just last week Brazil crossed the really kind of horrifying milestone of 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 and I think you know it's really important as I think you know I'm here in the United States a lot of people feel okay COVID-19 is over everyone you know here the vaccinations are widely available you know people can go back to life as normal whatever that means you know that's another whole other thing to unpack but this is you know the virus continues and as we've talked in this show at length a lot of places across the world because of the vaccine hoarding of nations like the United States like European countries and you know the actions of the pharmaceutical companies to kind of hoard these vaccines and you know try to make profit from this is that it's a reality that's very strong in many countries so you know in Brazil some of the worst impacts you know especially when we're talking about indigenous communities the impact on indigenous communities in Brazil has been huge and so you know they crossed this 500,000 death mark and there have been constant mobilizations to demand that Bolsonaro resigned to demand that he be impeached all sorts to be voted out and so last week there was a huge mobilization I mean the estimates were saying over I think it was 720,000 people that were out in the streets in over 400 cities across the country you know this is a huge mobilization really really important people from all sectors of society from trade unions from left political parties a lot of indigenous communities have also been mobilizing out for Brazilian organizations because they've all been extremely hard hit by this policy of death, of genocide and there are over in you know and it's not just been on the streets but people in parliament have been extremely extremely active and there are over 100 requests for the impeachment of Jared Bolsonaro this is historic I don't think this has ever happened in history it hasn't happened in the history of Brazil and I'd be interested to know if this has happened in other countries over 100 requests for impeachment of Jared Bolsonaro for you know a slew of crimes not only for having to a pandemic but you know of benefiting these large landowners for you know calling for allowing environmental devastation and so all of these things this Saturday Brazilians are going to be out in the streets once again demanding out Bolsonaro in an end to the genocidal policies their slogan is vaccine in the arm food on the plate and so I think this is really inspiring we're with the people of Brazil and you know no more of these governments that take advantage of the people and that do not protect them in a time where the people's lives have to be of the first order absolutely vaccine in the arm food on the plate is really a powerful slogan I think to end today's show with because it represents the it so simply and elegantly synthesizes some of the most important demands of our time of the kind of issues that we talk about in give the people what they want you this is you'll be hearing it in a podcast form soon too will be definitely back next week until then please go to peoplesdispatch.org where you can find many of these stories you can find the coverage of them the follow-ups to them many of them very essential and what do you call as well as read articles from the global system as well where there is a lot of exit opinion writing from across the world so that's it for us today Zoe anything more no the struggle continues we salute the amazing victories of Cuba, Venezuela and they give us inspiration to go forward so I think that's it thank you so much for watching


Dispatching German troops to Ukraine is a red line. Germany should not become a party to the conflict in Ukraine. The potential presence of German troops in Ukraine is a red line that the country must not cross. The country's vice chancellor and federal minister for economic affairs and climate action, Robert Habeck, reiterated, We should not become a party to this war. It is important to always keep our distance, Habeck said on air in a broadcast by Deutschlandfunk radio. When answering a question as to where he would personally draw a red line, the senior official said, The presence of German troops in Ukraine, Habeck, along with a small delegation representing German business, arrived on an unannounced visit to Kiev. The agenda for the trip covered Ukraine's future reconstruction and energy cooperation. This marks the vice chancellor's first visit to Ukraine as a federal minister since the start of the special military operation. In May 2021, he visited the country in his then capacity as a chair of the Green Party and drew harsh criticism even from his fellow party members for demanding that Kiev be supplied with defensive weapons. Currently, the Greens are the most vocal supporters in Germany of providing Ukraine with weapons. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has repeatedly pointed out that Germany and NATO in general would not be party to the conflict in Ukraine, although the West would continue to support the country as long as necessary.


Okay, so I'm Cynthia Spielman. Welcome to the Beacon Hill Area Neighborhood Association meeting. This is the place we meet once a month. We talk out our issues. We find that we meet each other, our neighbors, and sometimes we even have a good time. So, agenda. Is it agenda or anything we want to? That is going to happen. Because there's so much discussion of that, I've taken the ZUD committee out of the committee section, and we're going to talk about that as a separate case. Yeah, that law effort, everyone loud and clear. No, you were just, we're not taking anything out of the ZUD agenda. What we're doing is we're taking the ZUD committee report and placing it in a passport all by itself. That's just so much to talk about. Okay, so we're just going to talk about that. Yes, that was Susan. Yes, there is. Okay, so the last minutes are in the newsletter. Is anybody who wants to make a motion that we approve them? Emotion, yes. Who's new to that? Sometimes we'll do that because it's part of the city process, so we welcome them, and that's why holding a mic usually I'm not holding a mic. Okay, so please, is she telling me to go closer? Yes. Would, please raise your hand and stand up to introduce yourself if you're brand new tonight. Greetings all of you new folks and everybody else. I'm Brock Curry. I'm the treasurer of the Neighbor Association. I only put a few of these out, but if you want to look at the treasurer's report, the extended dance version is on the website. The abbreviated one is in the newsletter, but mainly it was an amazing month, mainly because we had a wonderful garage sale that brought in about $2,100. Thanks to those of you who were participating in that, it was very helpful. 50% of that went to the general fund, which is what we use to pay for the newsletter itself, so it was very helpful to help us make ends meet. We also had some new ads in May expenses. We had a typical maintenance on the printer, newsletter, paper and toner. There was some money spent at the community garden, and there was a $100 given to Beacon Hill Amentary from the vanilla spun. That was the end of the year activities for the school, so that was very nice. So that's about it. That's real quick. Any questions on the treasurer report? Thank you to Jerry Locky and the Heart of the Neighborhood Committee. They put on this garage sale, and they also put on a celebration of Phase 2 of the Linear Park, and quite frankly, they're the community liaison with the community parks. Jerry Locky, would you please stand up? I know you're here because I saw you. There you are. The garage sale there, and they fed everybody, and really they went above and beyond. This is our safe officer, but he has Monday nights off, so for tonight Officer McCall is going to come up and talk to you about crime in the neighborhood. I'm doing tonight a good turnout, the most I've seen yet. What I tried to do is I tried to go through all the crime stats for the last month. One of the sites that I use, aside from our systems, I also go to one that you all can use. It's called CrimeSpot.com. One of the problems I see with that though is it will show like there were a lot of burglaries in the area, but then when you actually go into our system and look at the cases, a lot of them turned out not to be burglaries.  It will bring a map up, and when I first looked at it I kind of panicked a little bit because it puts a little symbol on there, a little burglar, for every burglary that it said happened in an area. And when it first popped up just for the last month, there were way too many of those symbols on there. That had me really concerned. One thing that happens, there were several cases where people called in burglaries where it wasn't a burglary. I'm not sure exactly what was going on. They suspected there might be even possibly mental health issues because they said there were no signs of any break-in, doors, windows, everything was secure. So we can work with the people using our CIT personnel if that becomes a routine problem. The other problem that we see is Facebook. A lot of times people will get on Facebook and be talking about the crimes going on in the area, and it gets blown out of proportion. I had the same problem over in the King William area. People were getting on there, more than one person would be talking about the same crime, and then people would look, there must have been four shootings last night, but they were all talking about the same one. So you have to be careful with the Facebook. Things can really get blown out of proportion on there. Now I did see there were several cases in the area that were serious crimes. There were some definitely good burglaries. There's one place on West King's Highway. I don't know what the deal is. Somebody keeps hitting them over and over. I haven't gotten access to the actual reports. I don't know if the property crimes detectives had gotten anywhere on that case. I don't know why they're messing with that person over and over. There was a shooting on Cincinnati. Somebody's car got shot up. They believe that was a personal issue. They suspected an ex-boyfriend might have been the one to do it. So I don't think that was any kind of a random shooting in the area. That was more of a personal. Any questions? I can try to talk about any of the specifics. Yeah, I can just technical question really. If somebody is stoned out of their yard, and there's technically a break-in or evidence of a break-in, you don't call that a burglary? That would just be a theft. Something stolen out of your yard could be written up and handled as a theft call. If they actually make entry into the house to steal something, that's where it crosses the line to be in a burglary. What are the statistics on theft versus burglary? There were quite a bit of thefts. I was not able to go through all of the theft calls to find out how many of them. When I turned it out the last month, there were quite a few thefts. That's something, in the summertime, we always see a spike in crime. We think a lot of it has to do with teenagers that are bored, the parents aren't watching them. They're getting together in groups and going out and getting in trouble. That's what we see a lot of it as behavior. So we have our units watching out for any kids. We have curfews. We try to enforce those if we can catch them. But we do always see a spike in crime in the summertime. Yes? I understand Officer Baylor is off on the night, so we have our meetings. There are plenty of other days in the month for him to be able to have this prepared so that each of our officer calls are short straw. And it's the company's meetings actually has information that is prepared for them and they're not standing up there trying to make us happy. We are working on that, trying to get better crime stats. It used to be a lot easier for us. We had crime analysts that were right across the hall. We could go over to them and say, can you give me the crime stats for this area? And it was a lot easier now. They took them away from us. So it's a little bit more difficult for us to get crime stats. But we're working on trying to get those. This time he was actually gone on vacation for the last week. So that's why I came in pretty much unprepared tonight. Excuse me. Yes? Could you ask for a store of hands of people in your group and some hints of them at their house? Do you have some of their stuff? She's asking anybody that's had a law issue, something happened at their house, theft, burglary, anything like that, criminal mister? In the last month? In the last month. That's just for curiosity. Well, it's 1948. I know there are concerns. I guess there are some people that feel like there's a major crime rate happening. It's not as bad as it seems. If you look at other parts of the town where crime is happening also, it's everywhere. We try to address, especially any of the spikes in crime, if we see one popping up, we try to look for that and address it. We used to get a map that had all the places that crime had happened in the last month. And we don't anymore, but I'm going to try a crime spot and see if we can't print that map out. So I told them, just send it to me and I'll get copies made. But we'll try and get copies made for the next meeting. So you will actually have a map that shows you the parts of the town that are being hit. Is Casper's here?


It's a large mouth What is popping people welcome back to another video if you guys are new to the channel hit that subscribe button hit the notification bell Also with the like button you guys have been enjoying the content I got to give away for you guys in this video so stay tuned for that here in a moment But I actually have a special guest in today's episode. He haven't seen mr. Big Steve What's popping people? You know what's up big daddy's on the scene daddy Van Damme hashtag bring that back y'all Give me some love down below help me out I'm filming this this is going down live for everybody to see a whooping We're actually a lake linear today, which if you guys didn't know this is my home lake I'm curious to see how this side of the lake fish is other than down south because we usually put in about damn Super clear water. So yeah, we're usually down there fishing clear deep water And up here. We're gonna be running shallow rock points. I think if the if the fish play I don't know it's cloudy outside right now Little came in drop temperature about 15 degrees which should affect the fish, but maybe it'll play to our favor I know I got that. Oh, yeah, maybe got Cody right here. What's up, Cody?  Let's pop it and look at this To Cody repping the hat gotta get around. Yeah, it's good right there. Yeah looks good Let's go ahead and hop in the water guys. We're gonna unstrap the boat Back her on in and we're gonna have a good time today. I'm just glad we can get big Steve on the boat So you can catch the big spotted bass today because that's what we're fishing for we're not fishing for large He's fishing for spotted bass. By the way, let's go ahead and run this giveaway.  He's big into trucks cars So if you guys want to check him out, man, I'll link him down below Let's go ahead and hop into today's video that we're gonna be tossing around today I'm sure you exactly what baits we're gonna be throwing you'll notice that the baits they're gonna change on what we're using here Compared to what we use in the rivers here to what we use in the ponds We're gonna be throwing a bunch of different stuff. So this first bait that I'm actually retying right here It's just a simple Finesse worm right there by strike King. It's KVD perfect classic That was a tag Already know you're probably gonna catch them before I'm done tying on but it's just a little shaky I had natural color green pumpkin worm I'm the water over here is a little stained because we're up river and the funny part is it really isn't staying Why are you so far up on the spot, bro? Yeah, just keep us keep us right here that point goes a little far out And then we have just a little fluke right there waited fluke that we're gonna be throwing and that is with the elastic fluke So I'm excited about that and then the secret. I think it's gonna be secret sauce today It's a jerk bait right there beautiful colors got some purple on top Chartreuse on the bottom like a translucent body. I think that's really gonna smack them I got that on my mock smash as well really great jerk bait rod yeah, we're gonna retire poles real quick and Get the fishing hopefully catch us a really big one I want to get a big old spotted bass today for you guys been a while since I've caught a really big spot, so Let's get at it This Fat belly, that's a good spot of us You guys miss my first catch cuz I'm a new bit running to go Let me ask you this are you wanting to see what our best spot you want me to put them in the box? But you want us to release them? Natural waterfall in the back there. I just notice that you want to see if we catch a big one That's a nice spot, but that's not like a tank. That's a good fish. That's a good fish Yeah, first fish today. Good job. By the way, if you guys are wondering why I'm holding the fish a big Steve isn't Why cuz I'm allergic to fish you literally can't touch them. Did you know that Cody? Yeah, yeah, yeah, like he can't touch him at all He's allergic to you know the fish or we'll on him the slime and I want you to notice one thing about this bass Oh He's way up there shallow to one Let's just shout a little point over here That's a nice spotted bass start off today What you guys have noticed about these spots compared to the large mouth beautiful markings beautiful lateral line on that vest too That's just a pretty fish right there. Good job, man. Thank you, buddy. First one two pounder. Let's get it Just crazy. There's like a hundred fish on here So you catch some in this pocket usually So we're tying on this like little net rig right here Realistically, I wouldn't want to throw it on a baitcaster, but you know, that's what we got today So that's what we're doing Little tiny never I'm gonna show you the bait that we're throwing It's just a little tiny like crawl looking thing It's called the rage Ned bug and as you can tell it's got a big attitude Small bait see what's gonna happen. They've been short-striking us all morning So we got a we got a change up this is my favorite color too. It's that summer girl and out here on the near They're gonna launch that you call that the kick in the road. Look at that They should call that the kick in their bass bait kicking the battle Yeah Dude, I think they're gonna watch it. Look at that thing in the water too. Look at this little. Oh Yeah, it's a little tiny finesse bait. I Should eat that maybe that one bite if I can actually cast it though. That's the problem. Let's see See if this one really does have a big attitude watch the first bite just get them I got it off.  I remember that like Gray look at him. You got him big in little guy Chasing bait up there. That's exactly what he was doing.  He spit up a whole freakin come here get it Right over look look at that. It's a nice little one So he threw up there with this fish head and saw some bait pop now. Look at this Yeah, it is How many of those do you have in his mouth? and a good couple Yeah Looks exactly like that fluke to and that in that fish head that we're throwing It's nice. So those bait fish is popping.  He's still moving.  Yeah His gills all messed up too. Look at that his gill They're all messed up. Got a little largey.  I got him. Oh, that's a better one Yeah, that's a good one Play Yeah, they're right there Small big attitude boys You see that look look on the floor one spot to fish Let you catch up just like that. I Know I can't love splash on you Look at that though. That's a pretty spot It's a nice little fish right there.  Look at that It's coffee rolling up pretty little fish that little bait might do some work today spots might like that Here we go. It's my best one so far back to back almost back to that cast I had him bite me right before that. Thank you, bud You actually got one. You got a tree. I got a tree pounder The fish stick we've had a long morning and We're gonna get door-dash right now try to get some food on the water See if we can get them to deliver it over here to the bow ramp has put in the address and says special instructions that I said Boat ramp. So I guess we'll see I've never done this before like what type of food are you feeling?  It's that they wouldn't bring it our way We try to get McDonald's McDonald's kind of deliver out here and we're gonna get talk of maybe you should have told him You were the king down abroad to see you If y'all haven't seen that video go check it out Yeah But yeah, so we're gonna fish around a little bit more We just came up of the lake a little bit the water so much cleaner and right when we got in the clean water The bites just turned off so we're probably gonna throw around this a little bit and then head back that way towards the dirt of your water Try to catch some fish so we can go reward ourselves with a hamburger in a little bit Freaking came off that was a dang good one too, bro boiled on my food Large mouth good. That's a good large mouth good fish, son Nice, that's a good one. He barely hooked you man.   That's a pretty fish man fish on bed up in this pocket Pretty fish We're talking about we need to really get out on these main lake points But we saw so much movement back here and some fish that were I promise you were on bed So spend a little bit of time and got us a nice large mouth Can't be that he came out and just just grabbed it. He's not quite three pounds visa. I got two number Pretty largey nice getting a step closer. We're gonna see if we hook another one of these big ones There's some big fish push-up shallow back here He's getting mad Who is it you got him? Oh, no Dude, he's so mad.  He's he's mad. He's mad get that fish dad Nice nice little largey. I won't catch this fish right here That's fun That's a largey another largey. Yeah. Yeah. Got the male in the female You are awesome. You played him played him till he bit. That's the male see him pissing That's cool, dude, they're locked on to man like those are all catchable fish Pretty bass man two largeies back to back the male and the female caught the female first and then came back through We rolled up on this spot a little more and I looked at where that fish came off the bank the male is just sitting up there pretty fish not big but Keep on hunting. There's more. There's a ton of wakes like all do look at that to your left dad See that tree moving There's a ton of fish back here guys You might might look into a really big larger mouth. We just got to keep on looking. Let's get him back in the water We'll get a nice shot There he goes but So I'm right down there That's awesome right there dude. That was sweet caught the female in the male Let's ease this up, but you got bit up there There'd be another one on bed You see all that movement. Oh my god Another large another one has been biting on me. Yeah, I want to drop That's the one been biting on me. You turn around and waylade them. They like that worm. Why do you switch to a shaky head? You're killing it Another largey three largeies in a row. He's not a big one, but it's just you know, it's cool.  Those other ones were like pretty skinny, but he's just a football Football of a fish. He said he got bit right out there and sure enough he grabbed me.  This is definitely the male dude. There's a probably a big female in that bed Yeah, he was off the bank too, he's not one that you can like sight fish, but pretty best Just feels weird catching largeies on the near especially sight fishing them like this I don't get to do this. It's like just interesting She goes Heck yeah, dude. We're making it happen You got him nice little guy Another largey though, dude, that's five largeies today out of the Eight fish that we've caught five of them have been largeies, which is just crazy for Lake linear.  There's there's a couple beds because that one that I caught was off of where you were thrown. Oh He got super aggressive right there Yeah, this fish is gonna be catchable. He's looking at me right now. He's nose dummy. Oh, he came off Watch this believe it. He's an on it. I got him Dude, he choked it. Yeah. Look how he ate that thing dude. He ate it in the back of his throat first flip. He ate it Nice There's another one on bed there. It's a good one, too. That's a big in on bed dude next to him You see up Need to walk That's a good fish It's only two pounder. We finally left out of his pocket and got us another largey. That's a male. You can see him pissing right there That's a little two pounder First flip up there. He ate it. There's another dark spot. I don't know if he went off, but Female should have been up there with him. That's a pretty bass I cannot believe how many largeies we're sitting here catching on linear. Gotta love it. Thank you, bud Go back to your bed. Don't tell big mama Casual under that tree. Yes. Yes. Yep Yep That's a good one though That was a good fish dude. I was about ready to dim. I don't know what Throw all my fishing gear in the lake and never come back.  That's her. There you go. That's big Steve's Got two baits stuck in there. It's your first bed fishing probably like a long time, right? Unbelievable. That's a good one though Thank you, Noah. It's a nice fish. Yeah, Cody. Cody's back there coaching me, egging me on. Thank you, Cody It's a nice fish. High two pounder Thank you, baby, for getting it.  Oh my god, it just came out. No That's a good one. Yeah, that's a stubby dude. He's been caught before too.  That's one of the prettiest ones that we've caught today It's really filled out chunky dude. We just pulled up on that bed And I think that's probably gonna be one of our last fish today We're gonna go check up on this big one over here on this point But what a good way to end off the day with that little chunky two pounder like that. Thank you, baby Oh, you got him. Oh, no, you got a small one. Where the heck did that thing come from? Oh my god, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad. Look, I'm around somewhere. Nice I don't know where that guy came from. I thought you had the big one. Yeah, he's right here Man, that twig, man. I can't believe that twig It's a spot.  That's a spot.  Look, is it really? Yeah, it's right there. Yeah, I know that twig fought pretty good Because I think you have a twig. That's our first spotted bass in here and you notice where he was at He's about five. Yeah, he's about five foot off the bank because I was like what the first spot Hey, that twig fought good Well guys, we're gonna end off today's video. Oh my gosh, did we find a lot of bed fish? I mean we found we found a ton back there We caught probably over 10 larges in this one pocket Let's find them up on bed. This bank over here. I know has a lot more fish as well We didn't find any spotted but we found two spotted bass You got two spotted bass back here But rather than that the rest were larges and I would have to say out of the last 10 years of fishing this lake This has to be the most larges that we've caught in one day hands down I hadn't seen I mean we saw a bunch. We didn't catch. Yeah, and there's a there's also one right over there That's like six pounds too that we didn't even get to catch But I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you could go check out big steve's channel down below Hashtag bring dad back down below Hit the like button on this video if you guys want to see some more lake videos Especially out here on lake linear and I will catch you guys in the next


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So this week I have got a few things to show you. First of all I've got some bits from the works. I was in town and I always pop in there. We've got quite a nice sized one actually so well there's a good range of the craft supplies there. So first of all I've got this clear stamp set. I have seen it in there before and I haven't picked it out but actually I thought I do really like the butterfly images and I like that there is lots of room to be able to colour them myself. So these are going to be really nice with my watercolours and I plan on using my embossing powders. So you know emboss with silver and then add the watercolour. I think it'll look really nice and for a pound I just think that's really really good. So and you've also got that sentiment there make today amazing which I thought was really nice. So yeah for a pound you can't go really go wrong. Then I picked up these ones here and again I've got the slightly bigger size. So these were again I believe only a pound simply creative collection they're all individually you know they've all got their own individual adhesive they're not on a strip again which I like so I've got them. Then these ones I love I haven't actually opened them yet they're silver doilies. Now I've got purple I've got white I've got cream and I've got a doily dye but look at the detail let me get something here we go let's use this here there you can just there you go aren't they beautiful really really pretty and these are great to pop on a card and then kind of layer up on top so you get eight although it feels like there's more I don't know they are quite thick and they've got a coating on the back as well probably just see there we go it's just kind of shining there so yeah I thought they were really good again a pound couldn't see any other colours but I haven't looked online so if there are any colours I'll share the links below as I always do anyway so I've got that one then I've seen this one in there for ages as well and I hadn't picked it up but I've been doing some more stuff in my planner again two pounds it's a really nice size you can see there against my hand it's a really nice size big stump set there so yeah pick that one up then I've picked up these and I'm so glad that these were in there so these are the ten wooden dowels a pound I have a very nice gift bag project planned with these which will be coming up very soon I'm not entirely sure when because I've got to shuffle a few other tutorials around but if you are in the works you know for the next few days and you like to do my gift bags get these dowels so I've brought three packs because they're just handy to have you can cut them easily as well and you can yeah you can cut them with scissors or obviously if you've got a little saw as well but uh yeah those of you that follow and watch a lot of my gift bags you've yeah you've seen me do things similar but these I'm hoping yeah it's going to turn out really nice then I picked up some more six by six craft um self-sealed craft bags to keep my finished cards in so I'm running out of my six by six so I've just stocked up on them you get 45 for £1.50 so yeah I've got 90 there for three quid which yeah I think is a really good deal so I always get them from the works and then I was really happy that I got the last one in WH Smith and this is the latest papercraft essentials and it's the one with Wallace and Gromit oh isn't it adorable you get this really nice stamp set bring it up a bit closer there and you can see anybody outside of the UK I'm not sure if Wallace and Gromit is something you will know of I imagine maybe I would have thought it's shown on other you know channels around the world but this is just uh Wallace and Gromit you just love them I can't wait again to colour those in so I've got them but the the nice thing is is like you also get all of these papers and they are really really nice they're exactly the same as my the Father Christmas ones that I done last Christmas is the same kind of setup it's the same magazine that done it I always try and get them when they do these I guess more branded stamps and kind of kits so this is Wallace and Gromit that was the Father Christmas from the movie and the books and then I've also got the spot the dog I think that was papercraft essentials yeah I'm pretty sure it was anyway so this is the all the papers you get so these are all pre-die cut they've got the silver foiling around them so you've got all these here lovely big tags as well with love just for you happy birthday these are great for Father's Day um coming up they're just really really nice love them all crackers about cheese time for tea uh Wallace inventing for Britain time for tea put the kettle on lad cheese Gromit silly old pooch they're all different as well and then you've got yeah happy Father's Day happy birthday old chum cracking job lovely like trims there to put on on your cards and then these papers are gorgeous so you've got this one here you've got the wallpaper that's another wallpaper pattern but these are nice thick papers that one there's just got put the kettle on and tea Wallace and Gromit and then it repeats itself again that's like another wallpaper that one I really like I think that's really fun the colors are so vibrant they're great that one there with all the little cheese and the teapot you've got the bones there and then you've got Gromit and then you've got that one I just think they are so so fun absolutely love this so I was really pleased that I managed to because I've been looking for you know a while well I say a while I've been looking every time I've gone into a different shop and they haven't got it I was really pleased to get this one here and yeah as always filled with loads of inspiration so I look forward to because I haven't had a good read of it yet so I will be doing that later I also picked up a couple more brushes I needed some slightly thicker ones I've got a lot of thin ones but I've and I've got a few wide ones but I wanted some different styles so I just got these again from WH Smith about the 18 and the half inch they can all come off now and I just need to give them a little soak and yeah they should be working perfectly so yeah just a couple more brushes then to put my brushes in I was in the charity shop I absolutely love this so this is the pampered chef collection which I know is not cheap and this was a pound and it spins it's a lazy susan and I absolutely love this I couldn't believe it when I saw it I thought oh my god straight away now I am going to decorate this some of you might be like no don't do it I put this gold washi tape on it but I've got an idea that I'm going to paint the bottom part I'm going to use some of my gold flakes I think and then I'm going to make a vinyl on my cricket and I'm going to have a saying some word along here I'm not sure yet maybe create or something I don't know but this is going to be for just all of my brushes so I've got my blending brushes I've got my spatulas just more of my mix media I guess kind of thing so I've got all of my water brushes there but look at it how good is that perfect so those ones are going to go in the top there you see what I mean so I've got those ones and I've got these are makeup brushes but they're really good as well for blending but I needed a couple of these ones that's what I've got so yeah need to sort it all out a little bit more I have some more brushes that I need to kind of pop in there as well but yeah I've given it a clean up it wasn't too dirty at all really I think it had very light use but I just love how freely it twirls around so I've been using it already and it works a charm then another charity shop find I keep everything in glass jars I love glass jars because you can see what you've got and sometimes if I'm kind of I guess looking for inspiration I will just look at my stuff and I'll be like oh I've got loads of them what can I do so in here Naomi if you're watching these are all your red petals that you sent me so I pop them all in there and a lot of those flowers that I shared in one of my previous weeks what did I get and I just said they were a bit naff I've taken them all apart and they're all in there and yeah they will get used so this is a large one the reason I love this one is it's got that kind of bubble look to it and so it looks really authentic I love it and for a pound I couldn't believe it when I saw that one so I grabbed it okay and then lastly I received a really lovely package from my friend Tati she has sent me a card before in the past and we've been you know chatting on Facebook and she's put together this really lovely package for me which I was completely overwhelmed with first of all I just want to start off by saying a huge thank you I've already thanked her but again I just want to say you are a lovely lady and what you have sent me is just amazing so in here she she's from Brazil but she lives in Dublin she's just come back from Brazil on holiday and she picked up some rings for me and I was like oh my gosh so she's made this gift box isn't that gorgeous beautiful beautiful gift box and in here let me just show you she's made all of the the thumb foam and she's cut all the little you know holes there to put the rings in and I've got these rings and I can show you they all fit so I'm kind of in between sizes so I have it obviously sometimes I might have it in the middle but I could also have that on that finger but that is just right up my street I love that so much so I've got that one and then I've got this one here I do have one similar but I think my one's a little bit smaller again this kind of fits between the two amazing love it this one's beautiful love the sparkle look at that so pretty you've got me spot on you really have you've done so well they're beautiful these ones are adjustable this one's got a butterfly in it she knows I love butterflies and it's got like a glass kind of top there on it and then this one here's just got this lovely big flower again this is adjustable so I'll probably have it on that finger again isn't that pretty I've been very spoiled so that's those ones and then she picked up some other ones here I've got this one which again is beautiful got all the faceted sides love it beautiful beautiful and then this one here this is more for going out again very very glittery but yeah just really really lovely very very thoughtful so I was really taken about by that and then she sent me some crafty bits first of all I just want to show you I'm not going to open up I keep putting that ring on the wrong side there we go but she sent me this card here which is beautiful these are the flowers from natures grace I recognize those and she's put thank you for being amazing she sent me another kind of letter as well but that I'm going to just keep for myself but she does parchment and it's a it's a technique that I believe was you know originated from Brazil so it's done a lot over there and I have seen it before with the card that she'd sent me and I hadn't seen it before that so she's done another one for me so she's done all this herself all this parchment it's just amazing so so pretty so thank you so much and she sent me a magazine as well along with some nail magazines as well so I can do some nail art and inside here she's just put this thank you so much for all your hard work and for being an endless source of inspiration for me your friend Tati and I did have a little tear in my eye yeah I mean I don't do this for this reason to receive gifts it's just a bonus I guess I just do it because I love it and I love you know to read your comments and I love that I inspire you guys so yes that was just such a lovely thing to receive so that's the card this is how the parcel arrived and look how beautiful her writing is the dream I would love to be able to do that kind of you know writing I would love to do brush pen lettering you know calligraphy all that kind of stuff and I have tried really I have but I just seem to fail I'm just not very good so when this box arrived I thought it was just so pretty I'm going to keep that stamp as well because I like to keep stamps so yeah thank you again you are just lovely so the other few bits that she sent well I say few she sent a lot of things but I've got these flowers here these are foam Iranian ones bring them down a bit there so if I open one up there really nice size as well I think you just need to put kind of stuff on there just take that off these are going to look great again on gift bags and stuff but aren't they pretty really nice like mauve kind of color I guess and then I've got the cream ones and these I've actually got a spare glass um jar she's also sent me all of these and these are like little buds again I've never seen this before look I've got absolutely tons look at all of this again she said she had lots herself and she was looking for inspiration as well and what she can do with them so give me some time but I will be using these tatty and hopefully you know you'll get some inspiration from that but aren't they really nice I love the different colors in them I think they're really really sweet so I'll probably have to break them all down so don't think they are all going to fit in there well I don't know I might be alright actually because you can squash them down a bit so a little look you know I think I can just about do a stick that one on top do that one that way as well there you go need to sort them out a bit but that's their new home and that's another thing again like I've said have it in glass and you can see it so now I will be reminded to use those and these ones here will fit in that other big glass jar that I've got and then she sent me some lace and look at this is beautiful I've got this one here if you can see all of these pieces so I'm going to carefully cut them in you know I might have them some of them together but my plan is to cut them and have that on a card that'd look beautiful on a wedding card or you know anniversary something like that but also a really special birthday card so I'm going to be incorporating my lace there into cards and then this one again because I love butterflies look at that it's gorgeous I couldn't believe it and actually that one it didn't get lost but it kind of was behind everything else in the box so it was one of the last things I saw there's one on its own there again they're going to look so nice on cards really pretty and on gift bags you imagine an acetate gift bag and you've got these kind of all going up the side oh I've got so many ideas so yeah again really really kind of you such a lovely gesture so thank you and then in here it says Brazilian chocolate filled with flavoured truffles now you all saw my excitement when the wonderful Sandy from New Zealand sent me all that New Zealand chocolate so now I've got some Brazilian chocolate so in here she sent me I've got passion fruit I have orange I have cherry strawberry Brazilian peanut candy that sounds amazing coconut yum yum yum and cherry cream there's not one there I don't like maybe orange I'm not going to lie I've never been a big fan of chocolate orange like Terry's chocolate orange and stuff I've never been keen on but every single one I'm really looking forward to trying the passion fruit so yeah I've now I've done this video I can eat them because I've had it a few days before I've got around to doing the video so yeah again so I've got chocolate I've got craft supplies I've got magazines and I've got a beautiful card so yeah what else can you ask for really it's just lovely really really nice as you can probably tell in my voice yeah it really took me back so I wasn't you know I wasn't expecting that there you go guys that's most of the stuff there there was also some kind of felt that Tati had sent me and I've got ideas for that I've already tried die cutting it and it works so again if you're watching this Tati because she did ask me what she thought would you know work best for it she was kind of a bit stuck with what to do with it so I'm playing around with it at the moment and once I've kind of worked out what I'm going to do with it I will share it in a tutorial and like I said a lot of nail magazines as well so I've got lots of reading to do which is great but yeah that's everything I've got this week so magazine can't wait to crack on with I'm going to start now go and sort out and put all these other crafty bits away whilst munching through all of that chocolate and probably making myself sick I'm going to display my beautiful card there as well so thank you guys again for watching I know lots of you really enjoy these nails so it's nice to share it it's a nice way of me to kind of I guess in a way catalog things so you know if I ever forget something I can always revert back to these so it's quite handy that way as well but yeah lots of crafting you'll see these things being used remember to pick these up if you see them and yeah I'll be back tomorrow with another tutorial thanks for watching bye


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And so to all our students out here, you heard what Jonathan was saying. They call the faculty members, so you want to get good grades and show up to class on time and all those things, those soft skills that we do appreciate, right, Vince? And can I ask for the students out here so they have a sense of it? Could you give me like an average salary that someone might make at your paper plant? Our average salary is just over $50,000 for how it has a company. It's pretty good, right? Do you have any places in Maryland? Not yet, not yet. I'm sure you could be convinced with the right. No, you made reference to a term that, and you had referenced it indirectly, Vince, that I think is important to underscore when you talked about soft skills. I usually, I refer to them as essential skills. And when I talk to employers about what are you looking for in your person, more often than not, they tell me they don't necessarily need someone who today knows how to produce their widget. But they have the aptitude, and then they have access to programs here that provide you those hard skills. But the equally essential skills are the skills of being a good team player. If it's an eight to five shift, you're there a quarter to eight. Respecting your colleagues, being a good team player. That's why folks like you who've had that experience in the military, when things get to DEF CON 1, you've been to that movie. And so when the lights go out, you have that experience that enables you not to panic and to perform well under pressure. And so it's really important as we talk about this remarkable program, not to overlook the other set of essential skills. And I actually don't use the word soft anymore because I sometimes worry that it implies that they're less essential than the other skills. And I know that you do a great job of that here as well. But as you're thinking about, what's it gonna take for me to get that $50,000 job with Vince? It's not only the technical capacity that you're learning here, but it's those equally important skills. Like writing, right? Like writing, exactly. Yes, writing is critical. And can we use that term? Are we allowed to steal that from you? Oh, absolutely. I like it. And we actually have programming to make sure that y'all are set with everything that you need there, too. By the way, you're not only gonna be certified in the way you are, but equally importantly, when you get Biden certified by Dr. Biden as you have today, that's a pretty important credential because she knows Community College is better than anyone in this administration. Great. Well, we've mentioned our partners. I'm gonna ask them and as well as our project staff, we can see we have a lot of work to do in four years, but really three years is our time limit to get things going. So it's gonna take a village to get this done. So if all our college partners and all of the project staff could just stand for just a second and be recognized by these folks, I'd appreciate it. So as we wrap up here today, I did wanna say Secretary Perez mentioned in his opening comments that he was learning what mission critical was. And our goal would be then that everybody in three years will know what mission critical is. We won't have to explain it. And that we will be able to show that we've gotten folks jobs because that is our primary goal. So I wanna thank Dr. Biden and Secretary Perez for coming, Vince, Kenneth, and of course Jonathan and Mitch. We really appreciate it. And thank you all so much for being such a great audience being attentive and allowing us to celebrate with you today. Thank you. Thank you.